No Alcohol No Drugs - the only addiction is Railfanning, to escape the negativity of the world. - Keshav Singh

(1) I would like thank to one of our IRI friend whose lines I am repeating i.e. "Aap sahi pakde hain" but partially.
(2) Your question reminded me of an incidence when I was in final year of graduation and had a long discussion with a friend of my senior who was doing M.Tech, about 26 year ago. He was preparing for UPSC Exam and strongly advised me of his own, to go for IAS/UPSC Exam. I don't know why he abruptly gave the unwarranted advice. But I never had craze for IAS or powerful administrative posts and always liked to explore/study the laws of nature which are practical, rather than the man made laws, which the administrators enforce/ implement.
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Sorry friend, I have not attempted for Railway exams too. But there had been two occasions when two Railway Employees, a senior official who joined IR and was posted in SER (unified) after clearing IES exam asked me in which division I was posted, and one station master posted in CR asked me my place of posting in IR after I had discussion with them during train journey on different occasions.
(4) Your seven worded post touching the two key topics together which are having special significance in my life appeared very much prophetic and moved me into nostalgia.
(5) Railways are interesting and fascinating to the core of my heart and any thing hurting IR pinches and motivates me to find a solution. I should have been a railway man in previous incarnation, because of many incidences/ creations of sub-conscious mind. Decades ago during my childhood, I used to have same dream again and again where a very high freight train used to traverse track laid after cutting small hillock and my self jumping on the top of the high wagon of slow moving train from the hillock and enjoying a breezy roof top ride!! About a decade ago, I was so excited to see the first photo of the first double stack container train operated between a Gujrat port (Mundra or Pipavav) and an ICD (probably JP or Dadri). It looked the same as I used to dream!! I immediately called my wife and shown her the photo of the towering train, yelling "my dream train of childhood has become a reality"!.
Thanks friend for your prophetic words.