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Good Morning! Sunday! The day for my big, greasy, fattening, high carb, low fibre, extremely high calorie and low nutritional, but tasty Sunday breakfast! Brunhilda, make that a serving of pancakes, maple syrup, scrambled eggs, crisp fried bacon, buttered toast & jams, a glass of OJ and lots of coffee, please! It´s nice to be woken up by rays of sunlight instead of our noisy neighbor stomping down the stairs. Already spotted a pair of our usual morning visitors (mommy deer and baby deer), although the are hard to catch these days, with the grass standing as high as it is now. Not a bad start into the day! James - [#welcome] from the other side of the Big Pond! You will find that the folks in here are friendly - a nice bunch to spend some time with. Oh, by the way, I don´t care what name your poison has, be it Thomas, Rheneas or the like, as long as it runs on two rails it´s just great! Mine´s Swiss cheese! Today´s feature of Ulrich´s Train Movie Theatre takes you all the way east to the enchanted land of mystical India! Take your time to indulge in An Indian Fairy Tale (Part One) - The Nilgiri Mountain Railway The Nilgiri Mountain Railway is a railway in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908, and was initially operated by the Madras Railway. The railway relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. NMR comes under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Salem Division. In July 2005, UNESCO added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the World Heritage Site of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, the site then became known as "Mountain Railways of India" after it satisfied the necessary criteria, thus forcing abandonment of the modernisation plans. For the past several years diesel locomotives have taken over from steam on the section between Coonoor and Udhagamandalam. Local people and tourists have led a demand for steam locomotives to once again haul this section. The NMR track is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3&frasl;8 in) metre gauge and the railway is isolated from other metre gauge lines. Between Mettupalayam and Coonoor, the line uses the Abt rack and pinion system to climb the steep gradient. On this rack section trains are operated by 'X' Class steam rack locomotives manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works of Winterthur in Switzerland. These steam locomotives can be used on any part of the line (either with or without the rack section), but the newer diesel locomotives can operate on the entire section, between Mettupalayam and Udagamandalam. This signals the beginning of the process to phase out the coal-fired vintage Swiss engines that took scores of passengers on the rack and pinion track to Coonoor and Udhagamandalam, covering 45.8 kilometres (28 mi), 108 curves, 16 tunnels and 250 bridges. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dSdq6oRcjyc" width="425" height="350"></iframe> As the line sees more and more tourists from overseas, Indian Rail has abandoned their plans to completely dieselize the entire line and will continue steam operation on the rack section. The existing steam engines are undergoing major overhauls, including a conversion to oil firing. Make it a great day!
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