Deepak Das

Das maintained broad-gauge and medium-gauge locomotives that would be frequently hired by steam engine aficionados such as former India cricketer Farokh Engineer and Peter Jordan, a railway enthusiast from the UK. "Eventually the BG loco returned to Rewari, where it runs as the famours Palace On Wheels," he says. "The MG loco, which was taken over by other railway, suffered a blast in its boiler and had to be retired. I then joined the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway as a senior section engineer in Darjeeling."