A mission to the MARS.. nope mission to capture the most interesting coincidence of Train No : 12007 being hauled by Loco 12007.. This piece of information was provide by AkshayMys on friday.. I still dont know how he figured this out... As usual telling some lie to my family.. set out to KJM to board 76512 MKM-SBC Pass at 9.41 AM. Reached KJM at 9.20 AM and approached the ticket counter to take the ticket.. which is when the clerk made me realise my stupidity.. This train does not run on sundays.. With no other option came out of the main exit of KJM hoping to catch a bus to majestic.. Took a BMTC daily pass of 45/- and took the first bus that came... well that was not going to Majestic.. so got down at Ulsoor for a change over.. Immediately got 314D which came with the...
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Eco Friendly version.. From now is the Bond version description.. :-) Racing.... 314-D and 138 were the contenders.. After i got into 314-D found that 138 with minimum passengers overtook us and sped fast towards trinity circle.. We missed the green signal at trinity circle and 138 crossed the signal.. Hoping to surely catch it at residency road signal setout once again.. at a distance saw 138 going ahead of us atleast 100 mts.. We missed to overtake it Residency Rd , Corporation and Mysore bank Signals.. Close to the KBS .. our Bus Pilot (BP) overtook 138 and headed straight into KBS ( kempegowda bus stand) and we won the race.. Taking my normal route into SBC via the subway... headed out to the PF ticket counter.. A long queue.. and after 10 mins in the Q.. got my ticket.. Headed to the reservation counter to check if i can get my wife's ticket for tomorrow in the same coach of my inlaws.. Walked 2 floors and and enquired with 10 Rly employees.. everyone said.. " Adjust inside the train with other passengers" no such procedure is available. Anyways not bothering much.. Headed towards PF7 where shatabdi was to arrive... At 10.35 am came the announcement.. Shatabdi Arriving shortly in PF7.. At exactly 10.40 the hero came into the PF with RPM WAP1 22058. The beast has done a great run.. MAS-SBC in 4hrs and 40 mins. Meanwhile i was so excited that UBL WDG-4 12007 was parked in PF9 waiting for clearance.. thats when i kinda realised Akshay was right.. With all excitement, went closer.. RPM WAP1 was relieved of it duty.. Oops RPF all over.. How do i capture the coupling.. and the WDG-4 was already given the signal and started moving.. instantly ran over the FOB and stood there.. looked around for RPF visibility.. there only a couple of them on the PF near the luggage van on the shatabdi.. so silently captured the WDG which was approaching towards the shatabdi.. ( the video is not very clear dude to the fear of RPF noting me down)... I slowly walked down and the coupling was done by then... Went to the guard who was incharge of the coupling and in an attempt to befriend him i said " Sir is this a coincidence or something planned"? He said what????? .. I said how come Loco 12007 is hauling Train 12007 today? thats when he realised the conincidence as well..... He smiled at me.. I aksed him gently can we go to the LP and speak about it.. he asked me not to go to the LP as he was already pissed off and unhappy about something about the loco.. looks like the loco had some problem.. The train that arrived 10 mins early.. left 1o mins late due to this issue i guess.. Now thinking how to capture the loco pulling the train.. i went little ahead of the loco and sat on trolley.. An RPF personnel was sitting next to me.. i slowly switched on the camera of my mobile and placed it on my lap.. checked if the capture would be ok and the position was perfect enough to get a clear picture and as well the RPF not realising.. By then WDG-4 gave its honk and i pressed the recording button.. I decided to look somewhere else while the mobile was capturing the train moving out so that the RPF sitting next to me had no doubts... The capture was complete and i headed straight out of that place with a lot of joy.. headed straight back to KBS and took 300-C straight back home.. a great mission stayed complete.....
Thanks for the patient reading.....