The First Whistle

Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion, The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from the United Kingdom, by crossing 586 bridges, beautiful Himalayan Mountain Ranges, 37 tunnels of major attractions arrived at the destination, A first venture, to boost up the drop's tea and coal transportation. That day, a track known as Brahmaputra Valley, literally airdropped as an island railway went conversion, became history to usher the broad gauge interconnectivity of the remote region. Eleven years later in 1892, thousands of men and women gathered to cast the last glimpse of the railway track at the eastern part of the Indian Continental, to become the witness of the track's last communication. An emotional moment, when the train ran for the last time on the 115 year old meter gauge line by flagging and blowing the last whistle of the dominion. To bid tearful, joyful adieu to the first whistle of the last morning, on the old track of the 65 km railway line, inaugurated in 1881, in the so called Land of the Raising Sun as commemoration!