Shubhankar's Model Railways

A Siemens built electric locomotive....!

The first electric train ran today in India 94 years ago with the inauguration of services between Bombay VT and Kurla Harbour Great Indian Peninsula Railway system. The section was electrified on 1500 Volt DC which was flagged of by Sir Leslie Wilson (Governor of the Mumbai). Electric traction was subsequently extended on Central Railway upto Igatpuri on Northeast line and Pune on Southeast line where heavy gradients on the Western Ghats compelled introduction of electric traction. 1500 Volt DC traction was introduced on the Suburban section of Western Railway between Colaba and Borivili on 05.01.1928 and between Madras Beach and Tambaram of Southern Railway on 15.11.1931.Thus, before dawn of Independence, India had 388 KM of DC electrification.

HO scale is the most popular scale of model railway in the world. The rails are spaced 16.5 mm (0.650 in) apart for modeling 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge tracks and trains in HO.

The name HO comes from 1:87 scale being half that of O scale, which was previously the smallest of the series of older and larger 0, 1, 2 and 3 gauges introduced by Märklin around 1900. In most English-speaking markets it is pronounced "aitch-oh" and written with the letters HO today, but in other markets remains written with the letter H and number 0 (zero), so in German, it is pronounced as "hah-null".

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Celebrate the magic and joys of Diwali...!!

Indian Railways Completes 164 years today...!!!

The legendary

My new model of Shinkansen, (E5 series) is a Japanese high-speed (upto 320 kmph ) train type operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on Tohoku Shinkansen services.

Our final year engineering project, "TRACK MONITORING SYSTEM", sponsored by INDIAN RAILWAYS, was successfully completed and acknowledged by Indian Railways' research institute IRICEN,PUNE.