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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'.
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Monday, February 2, 2026

SPOTLIGHT: U14C #915 TAYUMAN SHED

 




There are pristine locomotives, there are workhorses, and then there are locomotives like Philippine National Railways General Electric U14C number 915 — a machine that in 2009 looked less like a shining example of engineering brilliance and more like a veteran prize fighter who had gone fifteen rounds too many but stubbornly refused to stay down.

During that year, I took the opportunity to photograph 915 with a slightly different agenda. Rather than the standard “train goes past, photographer happy” approach, this was a closer, more forensic look at the locomotive’s finer details, aimed squarely at Philippine railway modellers, historians, and anyone else who enjoys obsessing over bolts, grilles, weathering, and the sort of mechanical scars only decades of hard tropical service can provide. Even then she was undeniably tired, wearing her battle damage with a kind of rugged dignity. Today, she sits at the Caloocan Workshops in a condition best described as… aspirational, while continuing to star in the long-running railway soap opera known as “Will 915 Run Again?” — a series featuring endless rumours, dramatic plot twists, and absolutely no confirmed release date.
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