A fun part of where I intern/job shadow is field trips to the rail yard in Tirumalpur. It is an hour and a half west of Chennai in a more rural area. I really enjoy the change of scenery and the open skies. We go to this section of rail because it is not heavily used, which gives us time to run the equipment we are testing the rails with.
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| The one train that reaches the station. |
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| The trolley with the railway engineers posing for a shot |
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| The ultrasonic sensors that check rails for standard features and potential flaws (the water is sprayed on the rail) |
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| The whole set up. The testing for the day was blessed (not sure if that is the right way of putting it) |
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| close up of the burning |
incense
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| more playing around I had woken up extra early to play cricket (at six in the morning we were to meet) but my friend never showed up with his cricket gang. All in all it ended up being a long 12 hour day, but it was fun to experience the rail testing. Right when I got back we left for Pondicherry. |
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