When you see closely the entire process involved in running and maintaining steam locomotives, you cannot help but get involved in it. Each step is part of a ritual which the technicians and engine drivers perform with the same rigour and meticulousness with which a priest would go about performing a pooja. The degree of involvement may be actually higher. This
X class steam locomotive is enjoying its water stop at
Hillgrove on
Nilgiri Mountain Railway. (Hillgrove, 2007)