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Water stop at Hillgrove, Nilgiri Mountain Railway

Water stop at Hillgrove, Nilgiri Mountain Railway - photo by Milind Sathe (www.milind-sathe.com)
Water stop at Hillgrove, Nilgiri Mountain Railway


When you see closely the entire process involved in running and maintaining steam locomotives, you cannot help but get involved in it. Each step is part of a ritual which the technicians and engine drivers perform with the same rigour and meticulousness with which a priest would go about performing a pooja. The degree of involvement may be actually higher. This X class steam locomotive is enjoying its water stop at Hillgrove on Nilgiri Mountain Railway. (Hillgrove, 2007)




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