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**Caunnysup** · 12-29-2009, 10:14 PM

doom-- that's a funny pic indeed.

here's a fast train coming at you, in India:

YouTube - Bhopal Shatabdi at 150 km/h

a couple trying their luck, crossing the tracks (pretty nonchalantly!) just as the fast train approaches...nearly got killed:

YouTube - Never ever cross shatabi express

No folks on top or sides of trains in those vids

But if you ever want to see India's vastness, you can't really beat train travel...it's fun and adventure right there on your way to a destination! lol

Here, a Konkan Railway engine hauls 23 passenger cars at a good speed past a Mumbai (Bombay) suburban station...looks pretty clean and nice even for as dirty a place as Mumbai Railways...but more to the point, that's 23 freakin coaches full of passengers going on a long distance journey of 450+ miles, crossing 2000+ bridges and 90+ tunnels!:

YouTube - Indian Railways...Konkan Kanya with WDP4

Even the British gave up on building the Konkan Railway in all their time in India.

There's more to trains in India than just speed... there are "toy trains" riding up steep hills to vacation spots; there are heritage trains that provide first-class on-board service and treating you as a maharaja; there are still-workable steam engines, harking back 100+ years of providing passenger service; there are local/suburban trains, and now even metros in cities like Delhi and Calcutta.

All this is to say that the vast Indian Railways, even if antiquated in some aspects, still gets the job done, moving more than 6 billion people across almost 40,000 miles of passenger service...and doing so at a price that your average Indian family can afford.

12-29-2009, 10:14 PM	#20
Caunnysup Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	doom-- that's a funny pic indeed. here's a fast train coming at you, in India: YouTube - Bhopal Shatabdi at 150 km/h a couple trying their luck, crossing the tracks (pretty nonchalantly!) just as the fast train approaches...nearly got killed: YouTube - Never ever cross shatabi express No folks on top or sides of trains in those vids But if you ever want to see India's vastness, you can't really beat train travel...it's fun and adventure right there on your way to a destination! lol Here, a Konkan Railway engine hauls 23 passenger cars at a good speed past a Mumbai (Bombay) suburban station...looks pretty clean and nice even for as dirty a place as Mumbai Railways...but more to the point, that's 23 freakin coaches full of passengers going on a long distance journey of 450+ miles, crossing 2000+ bridges and 90+ tunnels!: YouTube - Indian Railways...Konkan Kanya with WDP4 Even the British gave up on building the Konkan Railway in all their time in India. There's more to trains in India than just speed... there are "toy trains" riding up steep hills to vacation spots; there are heritage trains that provide first-class on-board service and treating you as a maharaja; there are still-workable steam engines, harking back 100+ years of providing passenger service; there are local/suburban trains, and now even metros in cities like Delhi and Calcutta. All this is to say that the vast Indian Railways, even if antiquated in some aspects, still gets the job done, moving more than 6 billion people across almost 40,000 miles of passenger service...and doing so at a price that your average Indian family can afford.
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