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Vatva WDP4D #40255 at Veraval Junction as it prepares to run light to Somnath and work train 11465, the Jabalpur Express. Saturday 11th March 2017. In the distance RTM WDM3D #11463 is shunting stock about.
In the six months or so before my visit this train had switched traction to pairs of VTA Shaktis but had sadly reverted to less interesting power a couple of weeks previously.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
ET WAP-4 #22971 blazing towards MISROD @ MPS taking lead of 44 mins late running 11464 JBP-SMNH "RAJKOT" Express.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
People hanging out of the doors, long trains and....and......thefts traveling on the train!!!
My wallet got stolen in the same train last saturday, the coach can also be seen, second last from the end ! :o
Train was 11466 Jabalpur-Somnath Express with an ex-ET Katni WDM-3A # 16710R in charge, it was 23 coach long that day!
Majestic ET Twins WDM-3A #16485R + WDM-3D #11192 punching towards ET @ MPS hauling 11464 JBP-SMNH "RAJKOT" Express.
A team from Kalki Avatar Foundation India gives passers-by the message of divine love and display the divine signs on the Moon and Maha Shiv Ling.
Transferred to Vatva for over a year ex-Ratlam WDM3A 18618 still wears the colours of its previous home shed. Here it sits at Bhakti Nagar with train 19119, the 10:40 Ahmedabad Jn - Somnath InterCity Express. Monday 5th March 2018.
Beautiful looking KTE WDM-3A at the helm of Somnath-Jabalpur Epress proceeds towards it's destination.
Ratlam WDM3A No. 16830R arrives at Gondal with train 59422 04h20 Somnath to Rajkot Passenger on 13th November 2016.
Another shot of Ratlam WDM3D #11493 at Okha with train 19252, the 20:05 Somnath Express. Friday 10th March 2017.
This was yet another great sounding RTM machine, a shed I've now grown a strong liking for - all I had on the trip were above average in the auditory department, except 11581 which was not thrashed on a tottering branchline and apparently dire anyway!
Vatva shed's WDM-3A #16841R rests after completing its journey with 22958 Veraval - Ahmedabad Somnath Express.
The Somnath temple located in Prabhas Patan near Veraval in Saurashtra on the western coast of Gujarat, India, is the first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva. It is an important pilgrimage and tourist spot. The temple is considered sacred due to the various legends connected to it. Somnath means "Lord of the Soma", an epithet of Shiva.
The Somnath temple is known as "the Shrine Eternal". This legendary temple has been destroyed and rebuilt several times by Islamic kings and Hindu kings respectively. Most recently it was rebuilt in November 1947, when Vallabhbhai Patel visited the area for the integration of Junagadh and mooted a plan for restoration. After Patel's death, the rebuilding continued under Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, another minister of the Government of India.
The temple is open daily from 6AM to 9PM. There are 3 aarti daily; in the morning at 07:00, at 12:00 and in the evening at 19:00.
It is also believed that nearby Bhalka is the place where Krishna ended his lila on earth and left for his heavenly abode.
Original Website
Shree Somnath Trust welcomes you to the holy place of the Aadi Jyotirling Shree Somnath Mahadev and the sacred soil from where Bhagvan Shri Krishna took his last journey to his neejdham.
Note: Mobile, Camera & electronics equipments are not allowed in temple premises
Majestic ET's "Blue Star" WDM-3D #11462 arrived @ HABIBGANJ with on time running 11463 SMNH-JBP Express.
A stunning looking KTE WDM-3A # 18930R shows off its beautiful aqua-marine livery with the heavy 22 coach rake of 11465 Somnath-Jabalpur Express(via Bina-Katni), loco was struggling to accelerate over this huge up gradient!!
Somnath Masal, a millet farmer at his field in Jamkhed, Maharashtra in India, on November 28, 2011. Photograph: ABHIJIT BHATLEKAR. Strobist Info: One SB 800 through camera left, one SB 800 bare, camera right.
shot @ yosemite NP. this is el capitan in a moonlit night. determining focus and exposure was very tricky as there was almost no light except the pale yellowish light from moon. look at the star trails also. yes, earth is moving!!
special thankx goes to somnath-payel for lending their camera/lens and helping me out to setup this shot.
from wikipedia:
El Capitan is a 3,000-foot (1000m) vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith is one of the world's favorite challenges for rock climbers.
The formation was named "El Capitan" by the Mariposa Battalion when it explored the valley in 1851. El Capitan ("the captain", "the chief") was taken to be a loose Spanish translation of the local Native American name for the cliff, variously transcribed as "To-to-kon oo-lah" or "To-tock-ah-noo-lah". It is unclear if the Native American name referred to a specific Tribal chief, or simply meant "the chief" or "rock chief".[1] In modern times, the formation's name is often contracted to "El Cap", especially among rock climbers.
The top of El Capitan can be reached by hiking out of Yosemite Valley on the trail next to Yosemite Falls, then proceeding west. For climbers, the challenge is to climb up the sheer granite face; there are dozens of named climbing routes, all of them long and difficult.
The Somnath temple located in Prabhas Patan near Veraval in Saurashtra on the western coast of Gujarat, India, is believed to be the first among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva. It is an important pilgrimage and tourist spot of Gujarat. Destroyed and reconstructed several times in the past by several Muslim invaders and Portuguese, the present temple was reconstructed in Chaulukya style of Hindu temple architecture and completed in May 1951. The reconstruction was envisioned by Vallabhbhai Patel and was completed under K. M. Munshi, the then head of the temple trust.
Location: Somnath, Gujarat, India
Date: 3.2.2018
Photograph taken in the afternoon golden hour with mi5 cellphone camera.
Here comes the monster!!
ET WDP-4B # 40047 makes a grand entry into action-packed Gadarwara station with the 22 coach load of Jabalpur-Somnath Express in tow