indian railways

We all know that it is really big and almost everyone of has our own complaints.. but there are a lot of things about the Indian railways that we don’t know about nor do we care about or we don’t have time to look at the details.. almost everyone who has studied electrical engineering atleast for one semester would know that it is a dc series motor which is used in electric locomotives and electric multiple units .. there is also something called DMU ..it is not diesel multiple unit .. but a diesel electric multiple unit .There is a diesel engine which drives a generator .and the current produced drives another dc series motor. Hats off to BHEL which now produces these huge motors which were earlier being imported.

At first when lights were put on the coaches the normal 220v/40W bulbs and 220v/60w were being used which led to a lot of loss to the railways because people had a habit of pilfering the bulbs and fans .. so they came up with a simple solution to. make all the items steal proof .. they simply switched to a lower voltage .. now all the lights and fans in all the coaches work in 110v power supply .. so the thief has to really smart and probably would require a step down transformer ..which is a big ask for the average Indian thief. Now almost all coaches have tubelights which don’t require a starter ..and they make electronic chokes right here at ICF. All the furniture(whatever bear minimum that is there ) on the coaches are meant to last .. they are made of really good quality steel and wood …..

What I thought to be common knowledge had once been proved wrong by my friend .. the power lines that on top of the tracks are 25k volts (25,000 volts ) ..my friend thought that they were 220v supply !!! .. just think of the work that has to be put into the electrification work done by them. Nxt time u travel on a train just look at the overhead lines and u can see how much work has been done at the track intersections .i.e .when the tracks intersect the overhead lines would also have cross over … nxt time look at how it is done .. simple but effective idea . Even in a straight stretch it is not a single wire but only segments again another simple idea to solve the problem ,,, one line which is about to end go is a slow incline while a new line comes down at the same angle and at the point where they are at the same height the pantograph ( that’s the big claw like thing on top of locomotives .. ) switches to the new line … great stuff

boring days

Four months back i would have been the last person in the planet to have started a blog. But after four boring months and suggestions from my friends i have started this. What do i do from morn till dusk sitting at my desk looking at the monitor? For one whole month i tried to do the obvious thing that everyone of has done in their first days at office. I tried to read all the documents my project manager asked me too, then nature took its course.. things started getting boring. i started feeling sleepy everytime i opened a pdf.Forwards were a problem in the beginning then they became the only source of entertaintment for me other than songs.. then started chatting first with people around me and then on the messenger. I even started writing really long mails which my friend in iim would be proud of. If someone from my college saw me now he/she would be in for a surprise .."avana ivan " (refer tamil dictionary or contact your local tamil guru ) .. "eppadi iruntha naan ippadi ayitten " .. To be frank i have been like this throughout my life except my days in college (both the colleges ). Yes, i have fortunate and unfortunate to do my engineering degree from two colleges.. ..now even this is boring..

Talk about the food in cochin... it is teerrribbble for anyone who is a veggie and not a malayali himself.The food at the infopark is a nightmare we have to go through every single day as we have no other choice in the area these people have sprung up the IT park. Thinking about life in cochin .. ya ..nxt the"bus and the driver ".. the bus drivers in kochi would make michael schumacher and alonso proud..these guys fly through the roads with little care for the poor people in the road or inside the bus.

I am really ..really interested in trains. I even joined the indianrailways fan club but didn't like their idea of fun though. They even record the horn,and other sounds from diesel and electric locomotives.. i am not interested in those although some of them are really good. I wanted to know how things really worked at the railways, so i enrolled for inplant training at the ICF in chennai. Those 10 days were great . i am really crazy about trains, i pass my time watching trains come and go at chennai central.. i have been there doing this for so many years now.. every time my dad or brother is coming home i go there atleast one and half hours early and watch all the trains coming in .. ya i am crazy ..