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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.
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Friday, November 8, 2019

THE CHANGING FACE OF PNR'S
ROTEM CARS.

Their only a decade old, but the ROTEM railcars have certainly been
colourful during this time.
This week another new livery broke cover and was today (November 8th) seen in Tutuban station for the first time.
We are proud to be able to share this bit of history with you.
With thanks to the management and staff of the 'Philippine National Railways' for allowing the PRHS to cover this great event.




They were not on Philippine soil for long before the old PNR logo was removed in favour of the new Filtrack look s seen below.
DMR-03 had just come off the ship from South Korea when I took these shots.




The Filtrack era would only be shortlived, with a change in management seeing the original PNR logo returned, including a gold disk.
It mean't only a small change for the ROTEM sets, the locos and rollingstock getting a full coating of blue with gold lining.






Yet further change was to come, with  lot of the fleet being fully painted in dark blue, with an orange band along the side and around the ends.



This week the first ROTEM came out of Caloocan Workshops in the new livery.
Today (November 8th) the beautiful looking new set was photographed at Tutuban by PRHS Roving Reporter Mark Chua.
Mark tells us that the set is DMR-06 ITR-06 and either DMR-09 or 10)

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With huge thanks to Mark Chua.



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