Awesome shot! Everything right about this shot.

Karan, even before Railfans could trek this route, it was a hugely popular trekking route with other "Trekkers" . It was when the MG stopped and no trains ran for a decade.
In a way they had a "green route" through the dense western ghats thanks to IR's P-Way.

Nice sets of pictures. The efforts taken by all of you have resulted in rich rewards.

Stupendous work done by Ramdev, Pawan and company. I too would have like to trek the route , probably with the missed out guys.

One nitpick this ghat is called the Bisale ghat , the route taken by the road is called the Shiradi Ghat.

Very nice atmosphere indeed: I especially like the light on top of the bogies and the semaphore signals.

This is probably one ghat section with the Thickest forest cover simply because of the 55km of length of the ghat section.

Really great collection of WDP4 pics from Ghatkesar. Using your massive zoom lens, the monstrous SHF WDP4 looks still gigantic.

Stunning! I agree with Shanx that this is perhaps the best photo to come from Ghatkesar area. What is the EXIF data?

Dr Mulky you are right! This photo seems to be taken from atop BB&CI Railway Headquarters building (provided it existed at that time) which today houses WR Headquarters.

Looks like the bridge in the movie 'The Bridge over the river Kwai'.