Schedule
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Registration |
|---|---|
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Inauguration |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 – 17:00 | RDSO/IIT Kanpur SessionsOverview of Research in RDSO (Mr. R B Srivastava, ED (Research), RDSO) Overview of Railway Technology Mission (Prof. N Vyas, ME Dept., IIT Kanpur)Instrumentation for Crack Detection (Prof. N N Kishore, ME Dept., IIT Kanpur) Improving the Metallurgy of Wheels Corrsion Problems in Railway Assets Possibilities in Fog Vision SIMRAN – Satellite IMaging for RAilway Navigation |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Tea Break |
| 17:20 – 17:50 | Bijapur – Opening a New Gateway to History Ravi S and V Bhavi (of Bijapur BG Progress Monitoring Committe) |
| 17:50 – 18:40 | Panel Discussion on Diesel and Electric Traction (aka The Great DebateTM)Mr. Ganesh Sahay, Director Standards, Electrical, RDSO Mr. S Srinivas, IRFCA Mr. Shubranshu, Chief Motive Power Engineer, SW Railway Mr. Sachin, Sr. DME, TKD Shed Mr. Apurva Bahadur, IRFCA One more electrical expert (pending confirmation)Moderator (to be decided) |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Convention Dinner at Visitors Hostel |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Session 1Himsagar – Journey from Jammu to Kanyakumari (Shashanka Nanda, New Delhi)Major Rail Links between India and its Neighbors (Ajai Banerji, Jaipur)Chinese Railways (R C Acharya, Member (Retd), Railway Board) |
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| 11:00 – 11:20 | Tea Break |
| 11:20 – 13:00 | Session 2 An Overview of SBC Division (S Srinivas, Bangalore)GPS Tracking (Ravi Sundarajan, Bangalore)Bhorghat (Dr. Shirish Yande, Pune) Logistics boom and Changing face of Indian Railroads |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | QUIZ! |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Tea Break |
| 16:15 – 17:45 | Basics of Diesel-Electric Locos (Dr. G Swaminathan, Chennai)Workhorses of Bhore Ghats – The WCG2s (Poochivenkat, Chennai, and Ashish, Pune)Election of host-city for 2009 convention (Presentations from SBC/BCT groups)Organizers of CNB2008, Closing Remarks |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Heavy Tea |
Parallel Activities
There will be a train driving competition using Microsoft Train Simulator. The teams will have to be formed latest by 9th February. Teams can chose to drive either an electric train or a diesel train. All teams will assemble at 09:00 AM on 10th (before our regular program starts). There may be a small 15 minute session of an expert with the teams. (A diesel expert and an electric expert will talk to the respective teams.) After that the logistics of the drive will be worked out.
In addition, there will be several items on display, including models of trains, railway photographs and posters, and books related to trains.
Have great fun, guys – wishing you all a great time at CNB2008!
By: sridhar joshi on February 8, 2008
at 10:31 pm
Best Wishes and lots of fun to IRFCA at CNB 2008! Chug on … !!
By: Gautam P on February 9, 2008
at 9:20 am
Is there any way we can vote for the venue of the next convention? May be an SMS to one nominated number – are you guys listening?
By: Sridhar Joshi on February 9, 2008
at 8:25 pm
Wishing You all the Best and great Success !!
By: Varun on February 9, 2008
at 10:40 pm
I regret I couldn’t make it but good luck anyways.
By: Deep on February 9, 2008
at 11:24 pm
Thanks a ton to Vrij and Eunny for LiveBlogging… missing everymoment of the festival of railfans… Thanks a ton to the organizers – Dr. Dheeraj, Tata Srinivas, Shanx, Joydeep and all…..
By: Gowri Sankar on February 10, 2008
at 12:23 am
My very best wishes to CNB2008 event. I am really missing it.Convey my regards to the IRFCA gang.
By: Abhishek M Tamhankar on February 10, 2008
at 7:37 am
Did the MSTS driving competition happen ?
Eager to know the resutlts …
By: Manohar Natarajan on February 10, 2008
at 2:48 pm
please tell me how can i join this convention
By: nitesh on October 17, 2008
at 12:44 am