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“This first-of-its-kind arts camp has provided a platform for many artists to express their ideas about a railway journey. MYSURU: In the state capital, Bengaluru, railway and bus terminals being transformed into centres of art has become par for the course. Ruing the gradual disappearance of steam engines on railway tracks, he said, “Petrol and diesel engines have resulted in steam engines being forgotten. In what was, well and truly, a journey through time on trains, his painting depicted people drawing steam engines – those smoke-billowing relics of a simpler time – on to railway tracks. And I have tried to depict a bird’s eye view of a railway journey,” Khan said.Meanwhile, K Suresh, a Mysuru resident, sought to portray the bond that develops among people along the course of a railway journey, while H Shivakumar painted children forming themselves into a train.The art camp was inaugurated by Karnataka Lalithakala Academy chairperson MJ Kamalalakshmi..