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Welcome one and all to the 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' blogsite. This site was set up to share photos, historical pieces, comment and virtually anything else pertaining to transportation in the Philippines, with a special emphasis on rail. Occasional we vary from topic, but this is the less serious side of the hobby shining through - cause sometimes, in this miserable and uptight world, we just take ourselves a little too seriously.
Since 1999, the Philippine Railway Historical Society has regularly published items, FOR FREE, of railway interest on our PRHS Website. These include locomotive, rollingstock and transit updates, as well as our occasional magazine, 'Along Da Riles'.
Our interest base has grown over the years with our main Facebook railway group expanding to include groups interested in other Philippine Transport, modelling of Philippine transport and even a group for Philippine railfans interested in overseas railways.
If it sounds interesting, come join in the fun of the oldest, and most diverse, group dedicated to Philippine railways and other transport.
We look forward to meeting you.

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Thursday, May 26, 2022

CTC-154 - CALOOCAN 3-2-2010

 


This blog entry is a little bit different.

Back in 2010, during a visit in February, we visited Caloocan Workshops and found a mass amount of scrapping going on. The last of the 7E type cars were gone, the last MCBP as well, and even the very last PNR-owned bus was in pieces.

Sadly, we were a bit late to cover much of this stock, and CTC-154 looked to be the last in the current rollingstock massacre.

For history's sake, below are some photos of CTC-154 in her final hours, followed by a couple of other shots taken the same day.

Photos: Brad Peadon



Removing the pitched 'anti-garbage' roof off the top of the car.



Can only just read the number here.
Thanks to Mark Chua for confirming.


Parts of CTC-154, and other carriages, awaiting disposal.



The famous MrX partaking in some local gunzelling.



Twas pretty faded here also.


Always a sad scene to see. After years of faithful service to the country, CTC-154 starts the journey toward becoming a Kia.



A bogie off one of the three surviving 7E class carriages.
Earlier, we had identified these for heritage preservation.
But alas, it was not to be.


The only identifiable remains of PNR's last bus.


A sad pile of parts from goodness knows what carriages.

Was too hot to spend too much time looking for identifiable parts.

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Thanks to Mark Chua (PRHS)

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