Report:Shoot at Eastern Railway Museum, Howrah 24/08/08

Venue: Eastern Railway Museum, Howrah
Date: 24/08/08
Members:
1. Aruni
2. Aparna
3. Shamin
4. Sudip
5. Sudipto
6. Bijit
7. Atanu
8. Rangan

I rangan, a new member along with fellow new members Atanu & Bijit joined five seasoned KWS members in the shot of Eastern Railway Museum. As indicated we met at the front of the ER main gate at 3:00 pm, from where we walked for 500 meters to reach the gates of the museum. The museum has several sections like
The Hall of Fame
The Signal Section
A miniature Howrah station
A tow train (presently under maintanence)
Rail Section
Locomotive & Coach Section
The sections are seperated by lush greel lawns decorated with beautiful flower-beds, dominated by a central tower like structure.

Some of the major exhibits of the Museum are:
A steam engine from East Pakistan, captured during 1971 Indo-Pak war
A narrow guage steam engine of Darjeelin Himalaya Railway
A steam engine similar to Fairy Queen (Oldest operating locomotive in the world)
A steam crane
First broad guage electric locomotive of India
A steam road roller

Although we had a great time shooting this vintage pieces but frankly speeking the museum doen't posses much of a photographing opertunity. Going by my personal opinion I would say the Delhi counterpart has much more vintage pieces and photographing opertunities are enourmious.

But we did have our share of entertainment. We enjoyed out group shot possing on the edge of a vintage engine. But the height of entertainment was provided by a non-member. A kid addressed his male gurdain (mind the word) as Baba-Uncle. We were not sure whether the man was first a baba and then an uncle of the boy or the other way round? But I am sure Aparna & Aruni will throw some light on this issue.

At about 6:15pm we left the museum and Aparna, Aruni, Shamin, Bijit and Atan called it a day. Sudip, Sudipto and I continued our venture to shoot the illuminated Howrah Bridge.

Crossing the Howrah Bridge on Foot we arrived at the Mullick Ghat at about 7:00pm. Only the violet lights along the top edge of the Howrah Bridge were lit at the time. The locals at the ghats informed the the other lights will be lit soon. We waited till &:20pm but no more lights were lit. So left with no choice we settled down to shot the illuminated Howrah Station on other side of Hooghly. Even we tried our best to shoot the lowly illuminated Howrah Bridge. At about 7:30pm we called it a day and headed for home, but as soon as we crossed the overbrdge to reach Stand Road we found the entire bridge lit up in its full glory. But we were too tired to go back for the shot. Anyway better luck next time.

Before end I must thank all the members of KWS for providing me this wonderfull photshot experience, i also thank the members for provinding me the opertunity to write this report. As per Sudip's instruction I have been through few of the earlier reports and tried to maintain the format. I hope I haven't given too much of documentation of the trip and hope you are not bored reading such a log stuff.

Pls tag today's pics as KWSRAILMUSEUM240808

Pls upload in both Flickr & Orkut.