Woww.. Truly a memorable trip and event for me. Not only was this IRFCA convention a 1st time for me, but also, travel on the NE line ahead of Kalyan Jn, was the 1st time in my life. I, for the 1st and last time, visited Kasara under DC traction, way back, around 2003. thats it. This was the 1st time, I saw Kasara under AC traction, and travelled beyond till BSL on this line, for the 1st ever time in my life. So, this trip and event was truly memorable for me. Thanks to IRFCA.

Trying to fill in some of the gaps left by Ashish. Seated in front of Mr. Phadke and Ian is Pankaj Pandey. Standing in between Bappa and me is Aloke Mukherjee. Behind Sampatkumar is Raghu Jayram and not Dr. Narayan Rangaraj.
(Note: Thanks, corrections incorporated - asHIsh)

This picture will surely go down in history. Looking at this picture reminds me of some of the old group pictures of the British hunting parties.

I always wanted a picture of the whole gathering but was never able to do it. Great work Sachin and team ! Keep it going strong !

Sitting (interleaved two rows; L-R) Sagar Badkule, Ashwin Rao, Ravi Sundararajan,Rohit ,Santosh Kulkarni
Suryavanshi(Projector operator), Dilip Setlur, Mr. Rajguru(Sound Operator), Sriram Karthik,Gowri Sankar
Jatin, Ashish, Sridhar, Lalaam, Vivek Pillai, Shishir, Sachin B, Vivek Mathur, Raj, ----

Kneeled down and sitting on chair(L-R)
K S Karthik (?), Harish Kumar, Bhushan, Vipin Pai, Indrajeet Rathod, Mr. Phadke, Pankaj Pandey, Ian Manning, Dheeraj, Mr. Anand, Dr. Raghuraman
Mr. S. Venkataraman, A S Patekar, Sanjay Savkare, Sandeep B, Amruta B, Priya with Harsh

Standing(interleaved two rows; L-R)
Mrs, Usha and Mr. Govind Krishnan, Ranjit Pendse, R. S. Bhagat, Poochi, Kaushik D, V E. Pande, Satish Gune, Shraddha B,
Venkataramanan Iyer, Dr.Jyotsna and Dr. Deshpande, Shikhar, Pal Bappaditya, Aloke M, Dr. Mulky, Krishna Kumar(sr.), Sid, VSP, Jayakar S,
Rahul Sharma, --, Deepak Modgekar, Rahul Biswas, Biswarup B, Shasikant Mahajan, Dr....

Sitting (interleaved two rows; L-R) Sagar Badkule, Ashwin Rao, Ravi Sundararajan,Rohit ,Santosh Kulkarni
Suryavanshi(Projector operator), Dilip Setlur, Mr. Rajguru(Sound Operator), Sriram Karthik,Gowri Sankar
Jatin, Ashish, Sridhar, Lalaam, Vivek Pillai, Shishir, Sachin B, Vivek Mathur, Raj, ----

Kneeled down and sitting on chair(L-R)
K S Karthik (?), Harish Kumar, Bhushan, Vipin Pai, Indrajeet Rathod, Mr. Phadke, Pankaj Pandey, Ian Manning, Dheeraj, Mr. Anand, Dr. Raghuraman
Mr. S. Venkataraman, A S Patekar, Sanjay Savkare, Sandeep B, Amruta B, Priya with Harsh

Standing(interleaved two rows; L-R)
Mrs, Usha and Mr. Govind Krishnan, Ranjit Pendse, R. S. Bhagat, Poochi, Kaushik D, V E. Pande, Satish Gune, Shraddha B,
Venkataramanan Iyer, Dr.Jyotsna and Dr. Deshpande, Shikhar, Pal Bappaditya, Aloke M, Dr. Mulky, Krishna Kumar(sr.), Sid, VSP, Jayakar S,
Rahul Sharma, --, Deepak Modgekar, Rahul Biswas, Biswarup B, Shasikant Mahajan, Dr. Swaminathan, Simon, Srini,
Apurva, Anish, Sachin Datar, Amol Gokhale, Lalita, Anish & Raghvendra Rao, Nitin Master, Dinyar Antia

Standing on Stage(L-R) Rajesh Tukdeo, Rahul Rao, Sampat Kumar, Raghu Jayram, Vijay A, Kamesh Rao, Dilip(?),
Shantanu, Abhishek Risbud, Zubin, Sagar Tipnis, Shanx, Pushkar Joshi, Sandeep Modak, Bhaveen Patel, Chitrarth, Vrijilesh

E&OE

All the participants name are available with OC. After correct pointers it will be posted.

Dr Mulky: I suggested naming all the people just so that the documentation stays in the archives. I personally am unable place names to faces for a LOT of people here.
The ones I recognize quickly are: Upper Berth- Shantanu Kulkarni, Abhishek Risbud, Sagar Tipnis, Shashanka Nanda. Standees: Dr Mulky, Sid Ganesh, VSP, S. Srinivas, Nitin Master. Middle Berth: Bhushan Kale, Mr. and Mrs. Bhate, Harsh Vardhan. Lower Berth: Jattin Bhavsar, Lalam, Sachin Buddhisagar (what a pose!), Raj Bhavsar. That's all!

Karan is right, the lazy eye focuses on VSP, who was anyways the centre of attraction at the Convention. Karan, it would be better if you pointed out someone you don't know, and then maybe someone can identify them for you. It would be a huge job to name each and every person seen here.

Wonderful idea! It will be quite an effort, but can someone (or collaboratively) name all/most of the railfans seen in this one-of-a-kind photo?
PS: Quite apt to see the popular VSP occupying centerstage!

Now THAT would have been terrific!