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Seeking Donations To Help People Affected By Philippine Floods!

I am helping to raise donations for the poor people affected by the huge floods in Manila.
Can you help with a donation, of any size?

Donations will be sent through the Pasalubong Food Store at 1073 Botany Road Mascot 2020 NSW Australia.

They can either be made direct to Pasalubong.

Please help those back in the Philippines when they need it most.

Railway related photos of the floods are few.

This one, taken by Mr Bicol, shows the area at Buendia on the 26th.

No doubt extensive damage has been done to new trackwork and that still awaiting attention.

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Howdee all,

Am gradually going through all the old boxes and boxes of railway guff to find what is in there.
Here be one of my first shots of the PNR and of a locomotive that is impossible to photograph in this condition anymore.

Ol 908 was awaiting repairs back here in 1999, but by 2004 was beyond economical repair at Caloocan workshops and severely stripped.
As of June 2009 she was still sitting out the back of the shops, with cab and short hood gone, severely stripped of anything salvageable. Given she was like this in 2007 it is a wonder she hasn't become a Korean car by now.

Maybe she could become a good testbed for a trial rebuild.

It should be noted that 908 was originally 904, with 916 the original locomotive to carry this number.