Philippine Railway Historical Society News and History!: Panay Island Adventure Part 2

Howdee, part two of his series starts my journey
to Panay back in 2017.

The whole series will primarily cover the transport parts of our trip, while the bulk of the coverage will be the former railway from Iloilo to Roxas, it will also showcase a small selection of the planes, jeepneys, taxis and other transport related items noted along the way.

For less transport, and more tourist/scenery orientated posts, please drop by my 'Semi-Retired Foamer Travel Blog' which showcases many parts of the Philippines and elsewhere.

If you're here for train content, there is a little at the end of this entry. It will mostly start in part 4, when we visit Lapaz station and follow the old railway alignment through to Roxas City.

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To start, we find ourselves at 'Ninoy Aquino International Airport' with hours to spare before our flight.

Here is a small selection from three hours of endless plane photography. They don't make photography easy at NAIA, but, with a little effort, some great shots can be got from Terminal 3.

Cebu Pacific - Airbus A320-214 - RP-C4108

Plane has been parked since August 2020

PAL Express - Airbus A320-214 - RP-C8393
Plane has been parked since September 2020.

PAL Express - Airbus A320-214 - RP-C8398
Plane is active at time of posting.

Air Asia Philippines - Airbus A320-216 - RP-C8971

Plane has been parked since March 2020.

Air Asia Philippines - Airbus A320-216 - RP-C8974

Plane has been parked since March 2020.

Air Asia Philippines - Airbus A320-214 - RP-C8975

Plane has been parked since June 2020.

Cebu Pacific - Airbus A330-343E - RP-C3341

Plane has been stored since March 2020
I've no idea what the Cebu Pacific bus is now doing, but suspect it is

unchanged in it's status.

Cebu Pacific - Airbus A320-214 - RP-C3277

Believed to currently be in traffic.

This was our bird to Iloilo City.

Thankfully a short journey, short trips are the only way to endure this airline.

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Iloilo City has a large amount of non-traditional looking Jeepneys plying the streets. In fact, it took quite an effort to actual capture a traditional one, I think the only time being the day we were leaving for Roxas.

Of course, soon after we checked into the Go Hotel, I was back outside capturing the local Jeepney action.
The following shots were all taken on the corner of Ledesma and Mabini Streets, outside the Go Hotel.

Again, I took a lot of shots of the local Jeepneys.
I don't wish to inflict all of them upon readers here, so, if your interested in photos and news of Jeepneys, we invite you to the Philippine Jeepney group.

While I did photograph a couple of taxis, I really have no real interest in them.

I do believe there is a hobby interest in them. Each to their own I guess.

To finish off part 2, we headed forth to Plaza Libertad to photograph the only locomotive believed to still exist on Panay Island.
Number 888 is a former canefields locomotive, which is sometimes promoted, incorrectly, as being from the Panay Railway.
The last genuine Panay Railway locomotive was 114 (ex 3503) which was semi-preserved at Lapaz Station. It was seen there in 2007, but had been scrapped by 2017.
Lapaz station will be covered in a future installment.