{"id":468028,"date":"2022-02-14T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T05:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=468028"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T07:22:57","slug":"steam-era-water-column-comes-to-life-in-mysuru-rail-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/steam-era-water-column-comes-to-life-in-mysuru-rail-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam era Water Column comes to life in Mysuru Rail Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rail Museum in the city has added another attraction to its fleet of exhibits with a 1964-built water column, that has come alive. <\/p>\n<p>South Western Railway (SWR), with an intention to add more value to the museum, restored the steam-era water column to its full functional order. The water column is on display for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The museum has several artefacts like a century-old 250-kg capacity mechanical weighing machine and Toy Train station which is incidentally a replica of stations built during the time of the Mysore State Railway (MSR). <\/p>\n<p>The MSR was owned by the erstwhile Princely State of Mysore, headed by the Wadiyar kings. Wooden pedestals and \u2018Coach cafeteria\u2019, an old meter gauge coach converted into a restaurant, are a few to be named among the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rail Museum in the city has added another attraction to its fleet of exhibits with a 1964-built water column, that has come alive. South Western Railway (SWR), with an intention to add more value to the museum, restored the steam-era water column to its full functional order. The water column is on display for the visitors. The museum has several artefacts like a century-old 250-kg capacity mechanical weighing machine and Toy Train station which is incidentally a replica of stations built during the time of the Mysore State Railway (MSR). The MSR was owned by the erstwhile Princely State of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}