Ride on the buffer beams

	Viraf is up on the buffer beam to ride one section standing there. The driver S. Devshibhai (drives a steam engine yet wears clean white clothes !) is not at all happy about this, but he gives in at last. Remember him ? His picture is on Bharat Vohra's Wankaner site as well, although he is given some other name. The rake indicates that it is homed at Ahmedabad (ADI). These coaches would have to be carried by a BG flatcar for overhauls as there is no MG line to ADI from Wankaner.
	View from the other side, the hex nut visible in the frame is the (ever dripping !) junction of the steam pipe to the blast pipe.
	Viraf holds the tape recorder to capture the sounds of the loco.
	Another shot of Viraf recording the sound from his buffer beam perch.
	The finely sculpted MG parts ! The exquisite coupler and the pointed cattle guard viewed from the buffer beam. Also visible is the vaccum brake pipe which gracefully arcs below the coupling. The ballast is white with the raked out clinker from the fireboxes of countless locos that must have stood here.

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