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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.

If you have a question Philippine railway related, just drop us a line, maybe we can help.
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Friday, September 25, 2020

Panay Island Adventure

 


Howdee one and all, here be another blog series that I have planned to run for a long time, but just not had the motivation to do :-)

That is until a recent email from Thom Hofstra, and an interesting discussion about the Panay Railways.
It turned out that Thom visited there in 1978 and was lucky enough to go for a ride and get a few photos.
Thom has generously allowed us to share his photos here.
I would like to greatly thank Thom for sharing these, as well as his research of where the track ran.


54 is a type of rail motor that the Panay Railway used to build from scratch in their 'Engineering & Mechanical Depot' at their main office at Lapus, Iloilo City.
These suburban trains were fitted with Cummins diesel engines.



In this series I plan to cover my 2017 trip to Panay from the moment we landed in Iloilo, to the time we took off from Roxas City. It will be primarily transport (rail and road) related, but may take the occasional diversion.
I've also made requests to use some other historical photos and, if the series leads to any other contributions of interest, I shall add them as well.
Lets see where it takes us :-)

114 (3503) was the last Panay Railway locomotive 
in existence.
It is seen here outside the former Lapaz Station (Iloilo) in 2007, however it was scrapped by the time of my visit in 2017, only her builders plate surviving.
There is a steam locomotive, minus it's tender, on display in a Iloilo park. However, despite claims on a plaque, it is not from the Panay Railway, having been a sugarcane locomotive.


Ticket from the PRHS collection.
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Thanks: Thom Hofstra
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Stay tuned for further installments in coming weeks.









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