Good work guys.. You ensured that when our Queen would reach her destination, the pics would reach the gallery... Thanks a ton for the coverage.. and ofcourse.. May Her Majesty "The Queen" live long!!!!!

Wonderful work guys.. Thanks for coverage! :-) Long live Deccan Queen..

Wonderful!!! Am so missing the celebration.

Mumbai chapter, do your bit. DQ was launched from Mumbai, not Pune!

Nice coverage. It's just the beginning. More images to come in the album in the evening.

Very nicely covered and captured. Especialy the crown for LP is something special and different. This scale of celebrations and decorations, and on May-2-2010 during DC-AC conversion day, the very fact that many trains were sidelined at various suburban stations, to make way for the "Queen" itself shows the importance attached to this prestigious train by Railfans, Commuters and CR respectively. Long live DQ. Earnestly waiting for the day when DQ switches to LHB rakes, and that too in DQ livery !!

very nice coverage!!! logn live to DQ.

My Best Wishes and all my love for the Deccan Queen...
Long Live the Queen!!! Happy Birthday!!!

@Apurva: Sir, Mumbai gang did its bit- we travelled to Pune at midnight just to be present at the celebration and take the Queen back home. Isn't it better for all railfans to come together and have one consolidated celebration rather than two different ones?
BTW, did not spot you at Pune. Were you somewhere else?

@ Karan :- From past two years Mumbai members [including you] have been coming to Pune for celebration rather than covering the 2123 Celebrations fully at CSTM. There is more than enough coverage of DQ's birthday here in Pune , we need more from the 2123 Down DQ's celebration from the Platform number 8 of CSTM , that's what Appu sir meant and nothing wrong.

@Chaitanya: The celebration on 2123 is not that much because the enthusiasm among daily travellers kinda dies down after morning celebration and tiring day at work, and we IRFCAns prefer attending one big celebration rather than having a "repeat telecast" celebration of the same rituals performed in Pune in the morning. If you are so much interested in knowing about celebration on 2123, you should personally travel to Mumbai and cover the same.

@Karan, By saying "we IRFCAns" I hope you're not speaking on behalf of all IRFCA-ians and certainly not the regular travellers. For one, your perception of the "enthusiasm dying down" is downright rubbish - because that's not the case, and if you see some snaps, it does the daily travellers at the loco which I think automatically stands to rubbish your claim.

If on Sunday 1st June 2008 we've had the GM, DRM, ADRM, PRO & CPRO present in the morning , and they even let Me, Abhishek Waykole, Subodh Raje, Ameya Tipnis & Girish Gopalakrishnan go to the shed at decorate the loco of the outbound 2123. You too were present that day in the evening if my memory serves me right. The only thing needed is a precedent to be set, after which it will become a habit. Think otherwise for once. We didn't know Chaitanya then nor did he know us, else he probably would've been a part of it then - incidently Chaitanya and a few other Mumbai members were in Mumbai on 1st June 2009.