Economy and Coaches on a Train

 You may have heard of the Comparison of Economies using a Burger's Price in various countries.

I have a new model to compare the economies of Cities. It's called the number of Coaches on Suburban Trains. Economy Size is directly proportional to the number of coaches on your Suburban trains (metro or otherwise).

Mumbai has suburban trains (local) with 12 coaches. So does the Delhi Metro, on most lines. 

Pune has 3-coach metro trains. Maybe more on suburban lines to Lonavala.. 

Hyderabad, likewise.

Kolkata has very few coaches on its metro trains.. maybe more on Suburban local trains to Belur and so on.

If you can do the Math, you will get an idea of the local economy. You can factor in the number of passengers using these as an additional factor in the calculation.

This is how new theories are born.. like an apple falling on your head!

A Vintage Collection of Pics

1. There is immortality involved here. A sidewalk at Clemson Univ., South Carolina has my name engraved .in it. Not because I won a Nobel Prize, but because I was one of the centenary year graduating students. So people there walk all over me! With me is Anu, my wife who had to be convinced she'd married the right guy!

2. Bond (Moore) and I share a pose at a wax museum in Hollywood, around 1987.

3. The third is a shot of Wendy, a student I taught at Clemson, who modelled for my shot of the vintage car parked in campus.

These are to celebrate my 500th post (and 15000 readership) on this blog. Now, where's the champagne?