Railroads in Carolinas ..

Hi all,

Today I will introduce you with two different railroads in the states of North and South Carolina, USA. First is the commuter railroad of 21st century - proposed solution for the traffic congestion in Charlotte area in North Carolina - a light railroad system: Lynx. While the other one is the historic freight railroad in the South Carolina - started in 1896 and survived all odds and still in business in the era of big class one railroads -Lancaster & Chester railroad.

Starting with the Lynx:

This service starts from the I-485/South Boulevard. This photo depicts train coming to this last station.

Next photo shows the route of lynx from I-485 to 7th street which is station in the downtown.

Representation of the current and next station - a very useful service often found in m

ost of the commuter rails in all over the world.

Bike holders - just hang your bike till you are in the rail then ride them to your destination.

Signal system at the 7th street. Signals are present at the ground level.

Let us move on to L&C - Lancaster & Chester starting with the aerial view of the railroad mounted on the office wall in Lancaster, SC. This is one of the best way to keep track of your railroad.

Model of the old L&C car in museum.

One of the two cars which are restored for the vacation travel.

Track is not so straight and also not tangent - old railroad when they did not consider grade or curve resistance ...

Lunch on the rail - executive lunch made by special chef ...

Switches for the industry:

Finally two engines.

Bye bye Charlotte ... !

Luv stories - KJo - Hate

Hahaha , Hi all,

Oh .. I am still laughing thinking what a Punit Malahotra must be thinking now ...!! I think if you are a bollywood fan, you must have guessed the subject of the post from the title. And you are thinking who is this Punit Malahotra - ok - now it's not a post about any suspense movie so without much introduction our movie this time is I hate luv storys and the director is - yah you guessed it right now - Punit Malahotra.

One probability (oh this word reminds me about my studies) - he would be crazy fan of KJo movies or he is just like the hero in the movie Jay - but at the end because of the producer's choice - he changed his hatred in the Luv and as many cheeky love (not Luv) stories (not storys) end on the box office he got the success.

I think but he is the second type guy - because even when he is showing Jay is in love, he still manages to spoof all the Ghisa pita formulas in the bollywood love stories. Yah and he gives chance to Kunal (Jay's friend) also.

Oh, btw, if you want to see a good love story with all different setting you should watch Telugu film Jayam. But we will talk about that later because this is about how I hate love stories.

Let us hope that the trend will continue and someday we will land with the film that will be perfect without Red roses, airport climax, crying of lovers, first hatred then realization of love and any love story - hope to see this kind of film soon ...

Till then - I hate love stories ( DDLJ, KKHH, HAHK, HDDSC are my favorite movies :P).