Chapter 2.

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The goods train skipped all the stations, and few trains passed by our trains. I was with Jeevan, and other police constables. We were chinwagging, after a while, we decided to have dinner. I washed my hands and face getting ready for the dinner. Me, Jeevan, and his colleagues were having dinner. In dinner, we had lentil gravy, prawns' gravy, fried anchovies, tortillas, and cold drinks. The dinner was scrumptious and I was elated. I got back to work. The train was skipping stations, moving through villages, towns, mountains, forests, tunnels, viaduct. I was standing at the doorways of my brake van, and Jeevan too stood beside me. As the train chugged, I saw the irregular shape of tunnel, at the base of tunnel, I could see the rocks jutting out of tunnel, I looked up, the ceiling of the tunnel was irregular. As the train chugged, the voice of the train echoed inside the tunnel. I uttered, "I like to view the tunnels, during my childhood days, I use to visit my native place, and from there I found interest in railways." Jeevan replies, "Yep!! Those were the golden days." The train was out of the tunnel, we could view the night sky clearly, the stars were crowding the sky, the forest all around, it made a picturesque scene.


After one hour, we would reach a junction, where our train would change track. I saw the junctions approaching, the cool breeze began to blow, I could see two trains halted at the junction. As we approached station, the train diverted to another track. Amrit and Dinesh were applying brakes, and I too applied the brakes, as it is a goods train, so the guard must be cautious. The train chugged slowly, and halted at the station. I knew we must wait at the junction for few minutes. I got down with Jeevan at the station, I informed Amrit and Dinesh to check every wagon. Jeevan, and I with few police constables were inspecting the wagons, while the rest of the police constables were inside the brake van. We meet Amrit and Dinesh too while inspecting the wagons, we did the inspection work together. We found everything perfect, we waited at the station chinwagging, and later returned to our place. The station masted signalled us to move, and I waved the green flag to my loco-pilots to move. The train chugged, the tracks thundered, the wheels squealed, as the train changed the track. The train curved to another direction, the track we left were diminishing from my sight, and now I found the train among the thick forests. The train gained speed, and began skipping the stations. The train moved through viaducts, forests, tunnels.

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