A look at this curious looking 'Buda Railway Inspection Car' that has spent many years based around Lucena (Quezon, Philippines)
BUDA 757
Seen at Lucena around 2002 is believed to have been numbered after the US Army 757th Battalion.
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2009
2009
Detail shots of 757 taken at Lucena during a 2009 visit.
By this stage she appeared to have been long disused.
Photos: Brad Peadon
757 had deteriorated badly since the first image in this blog entry.
Photos: Brad Peadon
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2018
By 2018, 757 was becoming harder to photograph.
Photo: Brad Peadon
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2019
2019
By 2019, photography was not much better, and she was in a very advanced state of deterioration with nature gradually taking over her.
Photo: Guillermo Karlo Angelo Juan III
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2023
2023
I failed to see 757 during my visit to Lucena in August 2022 and assumed it had been scrapped.
However, we were sent these May 2023 shots of 757 which has had everything above the underframe removed, leaving just the frame, wheels and engine.
It remains to be seen if anything becomes of the remaining frame. But it thought it may become a trailer for use with one of the Kubota vehicles.
Thanks to:
Guillermo Karlo Angelo Juan III
Philippine National Railways
Lucena Rail Heritage Committee
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With so much change, it has never been so important to save Philippine past, for Philippine future.
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