First article inspection team from the 'House of Representatives', 'Committee On Transport' and PT INKA.

Checking out a new railcar being built for the 'Philippine National Railways'.

Photo: Courtesy of Mr Junn Magno (PNR General Manager)

BONI STATION - EDSA

A selection of December 2018 images from this very busy location.

HONDAGUA (QUEZON, PHILIPPINES)

Part 3

A third look at this once important railway location on the 'Philippine National Railways' south line.

The latest transport news from the Philippines.

Proposed look for new line north of Manila.

Photo: News5

Bulacan By 2021?

Hallmark & MRT3 Valentines Day Offer.
Photo: Essa Sayosa

LRT Gives Away Roses For Valentines.

Malolos Railway Construction - Feb 15th


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Buses Along EDSA At Mandaluyong.

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DAVAO PENAL COLONY

Mindanao Philippines.

  This absolutely fascinating photo was shared to the PRHS Facebook group by Reynante Bulaon, coming from the 'WW2 Radio' Facebook group.
  Where they got it, or who even took the shot, is unknown.
  The front vehicle looks like some locally made contraption, not unlike the BUDA car used by the 'Philippine National Railways. The carriage behind certainly appears to be a steam locomotive tender, possibly from one of the timber railways that existed on Mindanao.
  Very little is known of this operation and we would very much like to hear from anyone else with further information.

Other related items.

Aerial photograph of Davao Penal Colony  

Wikipedia

History of Davao.
Large Amount of info on the line.

Davao Penal Colony Photos (Today)

Philippine Industrial Archaeology Society Post
NOTE: Appears to be a cut and paste copy of 'History of Davao' site above.

Davao Penal Colony history (non railway related)

It is thought that the line would have taken the straight line to the left or right (maybe both) of the colony. Though this is not confirmed.


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HONDAGUA (QUEZON, PHILIPPINES)

Part 2

Another selection of photos of this beautiful seaside yard and former station.

Hondagua remains a major location on the main south line to Bicol.

Track work trains are based here. It has a number of roads, a triangle that has been partly covered by illegal settlers and once served a large flour mill in the town.

One leg of the triangle follows the coastline here, joining with the south leg right near the blue silos of the 'Philippine Flour Mill.

Tracks appear to be all still intact, but covered up in parts by 'illegal' squatters.

Engineering Department - Hondagua Division

Not many stations can lay claim to a view this beautiful .
Underneath the grass is the north leg of the Hondagua triangle.

Unidentified Buda Car.

Stay tuned for more Hondagua shots.

The other day, while going through the process of refreshing our PRHS blog as part of an overhaul of the group in general, I got to looking at the blog statistics.
It is an interesting look into where around the planet that people take an interest in what the PRHS does, as well as the Philippine railways in general.

Keep in mind that this does not reflect the first 60,000 viewers from the earlier platform we used prior to coming to Blogger.

Overall views  - 148176
Blogger views/statistical data - 88176

The following are the top 10 visiting countries.

Philippines - 36925
USA - 13187

Russia - 8658
Australia - 2342
United Kingdom - 1963
Germany - 1830
France - 1656
Ukraine - 1508
Canada - 1104
Indonesia - 851

No huge surprises there I guess. The Philippines was always going to be far out front, with the USA likely to be in second. Russia comes as quite a big surprise, especially how far away from the fourth contender, Australia, where the PRHS has been based for 20 years.
It is also interesting to note that Indonesia has popped into the top ten for views. This is the first time I have noted this and is likely helped along by the upcoming arrival of Indonesian built trains in the Philippines.

This is probably all quite useless trivia, but it may be of interest to those who like to see the worldwide interest that exists for the railways of the Philippines.

Liquids Allowed On MRT3.

Liquids Allowed On MRT3 - 2.

PNR Line To Nueva Ecija?

HONDAGUA - QUEZON, PHILIPPINES

Opened: 10th May 1916 as part of the extension of the south line from
Padre Burgos to Calauag.
This is the first of a multi-part series on the location.

Image courtesy of Google Earth and used under Google guidelines.

Area 1 in above Google Earth image.

PNR Engine Crew Dormitory.
Structure is believed to be haunted by people killed during the war.

The last of the 1956, Japanese built, observation cars.
Today it lives in semi-retirement at Hondagua and occasionally used on perway duties.

FL643 is one of many of her type across the PNR system.
This one being allocated locally for perway duties.

Hondagua station building (more shots of the structure to follow)

Builders plate on the former observation coach above.
Niigata Engineering Co Ltd - Japan 1956

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Area 2 in above Google Earth image.

Former leg of triangle serving the 'Philippine Flour Mill' at Hondagua.

STAY TUNED: More images from our recent Hondagua survey.

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