V. Chandrasekar

Nature Lover, Traveller, etc. once a railwayman...

[Luz Mery Ramírez @MeryLuz21226]

Este es el Dr. Otto Warburg.

Ganó el Premio Nobel por descubrir cómo se alimentan las células cancerosas.

Luego descubrió una manera de prevenir el cáncer, la diabetes y la obesidad, pero cuando la reveló, el sistema médico lo destruyó.

Aquí están sus 7 hallazgos ocultos que nunca debiste descubrir: 🧵

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

First Waterproof Subway near Bhiwandi railway station. @RailMinIndia @Central_Railway
@MrvcLtd

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

Kandivali to be developed parallelly to Borivali to ease congestion on @WesternRly
Read here 👇
https://t.co/3c5GgkL2hd

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

₹ sign can be used for anything as per @TOIHyderabad

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

A major accident was averted at Ludhiana Railway Station after a sleeper coach of the Delhi–Katra train suffered a structural failure while departing. Around 500 passengers were aboard the affected section, but no injuries were reported.

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

#TodayInHistory
#Solapur connected through railway on this day when Mohol-Solapur line opened on 6.6.1860.

Smoking prohibited in suburban trains from June 1976.

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

Thank you for the corrective action. 🙏 @Central_Railway @RailMinIndia @drmmumbaicr

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

On the Tibetan plateau, three to five thousand metres up, there is a line above which the air thins, the cold turns murderous, and every crop a human has ever sown simply gives up and dies. A lowlander dropped there without warning would be gasping within the hour. Below the line, a little barley clings on. Above it, across the entire roof of the world, one animal reigns.

The yak. A miracle of engineering that no laboratory could design and no factory could ever build.

Start with the body. It carries a heart around three times the size, for its frame, of a lowland cow's, with lungs to match. Its blood runs thick with red cells and grips oxygen far more tightly than yours, hauling enough of it out of air that holds barely half what you are breathing right now. Its lungs refuse to clamp shut in the thin atmosphere the way an ordinary animal's would, sparing it the fluid and the heart failure that kill lowland cattle dragged up too high. It is sealed inside a shaggy double coat over a dense woolly down, shrugging off forty below as a minor inconvenience, because it scarcely sweats and scarcely needs to. Millions of years of evolution went into an animal that treats the most lethal inhabited ground on earth as home turf.

Now watch what it does with all that. It walks out onto a landscape that offers a human being precisely nothing, crops the sparse, frozen, good-for-nothing grass that grows where value goes to die, and converts it, inside the four-chambered furnace of its gut, into the entire material foundation of a civilisation.

Milk so rich it is churned into butter that lights the lamps of every monastery and is folded into the tea that keeps a body alive against the wind. Meat, dried iron-hard in the cold to carry a household through a six-month winter. A fine, warm down spun into the clothes on their backs and the black tents over their heads, and a coarse outer hair twisted into the ropes that lash the whole thing down. Hide for leather and for boats. Bone for tools. And dung, dried into bricks, the one and only fuel for heat and cooking in a world with no wood left to burn. For thousands of miles it was the engine too, the single animal strong and sure-footed enough to haul a loaded caravan over passes that sit higher than the summit of Mont Blanc.

One animal. Food, fuel, clothing, shelter, fire, transport, and trade, drawn out of frozen grass at an altitude that would put you flat on your back in a hospital. Fourteen million of them still hold up the lives of dozens of mountain peoples today.

So take the yak off the plateau and be honest about what remains. A corpse-cold silence where no human has any business standing, and a grass nobody can eat rotting back into the permafrost. There is no vegan Tibet, and there never could have been one. The grass up there is poison to your gut, and the magnificent, grunting, oversized-hearted creature that turns it into life is the only reason a single soul has ever drawn breath on the roof of the world.

The mountain sets the cruellest terms on earth. The yak meets every last one of them, and then carries an entire people across the top of the planet on its back.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

The Woodpecker is the only proof that God really exists.

And I'm going to prove it to you right NOW:🧵

[Jagriti Chandra @jagritichandra]

Flying Air India soon? Know that the airline has offered a new fare category to allow you to keep fares affordable that DOES NOT include a meal.
Passengers booking the airline’s new lower-cost Basic Fare will see “NOML” printed on their boarding pass — meaning no complimentary meal is included with the ticket.
The move is aimed at keeping fares affordable as airlines grapple with rising aviation turbine fuel costs globally.

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

4:50 PM.. ⛈️ Lonavala, Khopoli Karjat stretch will be getting heavy rain in next 10-20 mins tracking westwards. Panvel & Raigad likely to witness rain in next 1-2 hours. Mumbai, Navi Mumbai & Thane still having good chance of rain, on watch. #MumbaiRains

[MumbaiMetro3 @MumbaiMetro3]

⚠️ Passenger Update

Train services on the Aqualine have now been fully restored and are operating normally on both the Up and Down lines.

We regret the inconvenience caused.

[MumbaiMetro3 @MumbaiMetro3]

⚠️ Passenger Advisory

A technical snag has been reported on the Aqualine. Due to this, train services on both the Up and Down lines are affected, and passengers may experience delays.

Our technical team is working to restore normal services at the earliest. We regret the inconvenience caused.

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

The lost train of Tinsukia.

This is too hilarious.

Remember there was a case of a missing tank in Ahmednagar some years back.

The Indian Railways did one better.....they had a complete train missing for nearly 40 years. This is how it happened:

The Lost Train.

This rake was discovered on on 18th December 2019 lying at a small station about 40 kms short of Tinsukia main.

Tinsukia itself is about 480 kms NE of Guwahati and about 80 kms from the Arunachal border.

Apparently sometime in 1976 or so, the rake had been placed at one of the disused sidings temporarily, as there was no place available along the platforms at the station, which in any case was a very small one.

Railway records show that the train had reached there at 11:08 AM on 16th June 1976. The engine ('power' in railway parlance) was disconnected from the rake and brought back to the station to assist in placing of certain goods wagons.

Heavy rains and flooding took place with effect 11:31 AM, the same day. Enquiries ordered by the Railway Board reveal, at that point of time, the railway staff was totally involved in maintaining traffic continuity, track repairs and tackling the immediate flooding problem; as almost the entire station had been submerged in 5-6 feet of water.

The passengers all had alighted and had made their way to their destinations, obviously with some difficulty. And with some help from the local villagers.

During this period the Station Master too moved out on posting as also some of the staff.

In the meantime people forgot about this rake as it was about 2 kms from the main station, at a limb and in a deserted place.

Slowly vegetation took over the entire area. The remnants of the track leading to the rarely used siding, which had not been washed away in the flood, soon disappeared under bushes, shrubs and weeds. Snakes, birds and wild animals found it an ideal home, much like sunken ships in which marine life abounds.

Time went by. Most of the older lot of railway men retired and others passed away. No one remembered the train. Daniel Smith, the engine driver emigrated to Australia in September 1976.

On 5th December 2019, a satellite picture by one of the NASA satellites which was mapping the forest cover in the Asia-Africa region, captured somewhat obscure, hidden and not too clear pictures of this rake, under a thick forest canopy.

Suspecting it to be the site of an Indian, camouflaged 'rail mobile' ICBM rake, it was forwarded to the Pentagon.

Abnormal activity of a number of satellites over this area was then noted by ISRO, NTRO and Indian intelligence agencies.

In the meantime Russian and Chinese
double agents in the Pentagon informed their handlers, in their mother countries, about the 'ICBM Train' discovered by NASA.
In a bizarre sequence of events, RAW got this information from agents on their payroll in Russia and China.

Now alarm bells started ringing. Could it be a rogue action by an Indian ‘Dr Strangeglove' type of person-- civilian or military?

Inquiries began at the Indian end.

The PMO, DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency), NIA (National Investigation Agency), the MoD (Ministry of Defence) and the CCS
(Cabinet Committee on Security) got involved.

By an internal memo, the IHQ, the Military Space Command and SFC (Strategic Forces Command), all denied the placement of any such train/rake at the location being given.

But subsequent aerial recce and pics taken by own satellites, IAF and the ARC (Aviation Research Center), all confirmed that a well camouflaged rake actually was there.

Ultimately a ground party of SF including MARCOS and GARUD's was sent along with a senior intelligence officer from the NSA's office to the site in an hush-hush operation.

And that is the story of the Lost Train!

Unbelievable!!!!

💐🎉💐

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

RT @drmmumbaicr: At Panvel station, suburban platform no. 1, 2 & 3 has been shifted towards CSMT end by 90 meters from its existing locatio…

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

Morning rails, moving lives.
A quiet sunrise over the tracks, with trains carrying the city into its next rhythm. #Railway #Mumbai #Sunrise

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

#TodayInHistory
On this day in 1992, Mumbai’s rail story took a major leap forward. The Mankhurd–Vashi Bridge opened across Thane Creek, extending Harbour line services to Vashi & bringing Mumbai closer to Navi Mumbai.
@Central_Railway
@RailMinIndia
@rajtoday
#34YearsOfTCB

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

For the last 3 days 08.54 Kalyan -CSMT AC local with coach no 8151 is leading to disturbance in Q at Kalyan and misunderstanding between normal commuters and senior citizens. Please look into @Central_Railway @drmmumbaicr
@RailMinIndia

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

The new AC local (coach no 8151 - Kalyan end) has sr.citizen seats are placed wrongly from other AC locals. Either the rake is inverted (i.e CSMT end and Kalyan end) or instructions painted wrong. @Central_Railway please look into

[V. Chandrasekar @ChandarRly]

The new AC local (coach no 8151 - Kalyan end) has sr.citizen seats are placed wrongly from other AC locals. Either the rake is inverted (i.e CSMT end and Kalyan end) or instructions painted wrong. @Central_Railway please look into