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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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Thursday, July 30, 2009

~~ WHOOPSE ~~


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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

~~ NATIONAL LUCENA WEEK ~~

A second selection of shots from our 2009 photo survey of the railway yard in this lovely town.
If a regular railway service is again instituted in this busy place, one could think of no better a way than to spend a week around here photographing.

Hopefully PNR can see the need for, at the VERY least, an hourly service to replace some of the endless bus journeys that clog Philippine roads and make them more dangerous.

The need is obvious, but then again, obvious isn't always that obvious to those it should be obvious too.
Note: Views expressed here are solely those of the blog author and do not reflect the thoughts of the PRHS, the PNR (who the author loves), the local Lucena government, the Cub Scouts of Argentina or any railway interested prudes.
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~~ CH - CH - CH - CHANGES ~~


Can't remember who it was that sung that song - grrrrrrr old age and mental blanks are a terrible thing.

DON'T you laugh, you will all know soon enough :-)


Still while many things change, I am glad to have recently remade aquaintences with a few of my earliest Philippine based railfan friends. They have cheered me up during what has been a very dark period.


Anyway there has been numerous changes to things the 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' does, so by way of an update:


1) The http://anz.rihspi.org website has been replaced. The new link viewable via our normal website of http://philippine-railways.blogspot.com.


2) The RIHSPI-ANZ Facebook site has been closed.


3) For those people on Facebook who would like to chat about the Philippine National Railways and share photos, there is a group called, not surprisingly really, Philippine National Railways.


4) Both the PhilippineRailways and Philippine_Transportation Yahoogroups can now be used to share photos. LocoShed_Photography_Philippines is thus rendered useless and is due to be shut down.


5) The RIHSPI-ANZ Yahoogroup is due to close shortly, to be replaced by a new PRHS one.


6) I personally officially step down from RIHSPI-ANZ duties in just over two weeks time.
To date a replacement here in NSW has been found.
I shall return to research and sharing stuff on the internet, while I will also be continuing the 'Along Da Riles' magazine for the Australian group and hope to improve it.

7) A revival of Lubricated Flange magazine?????
Hmmm despite rumours to the contrary, this was a very successful publication and may return in a vastly different format.


So thats where we are at - hope this helps to alleviate any confusion.
Perhaps you wouldn't have even noticed :-)

Take care all.

Brad
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Monday, July 27, 2009

~~ NATIONAL LUCENA WEEK ~~

Part 1
A selection of photos showing Lucena in 2009
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Photo by Happosai taken in July!

THE SEARCH FOR BLUE OCTOBER

As a rollingstock researcher I was very interested in Happ's piccies the other day of PNR rollingstock being violated by scrappers torches, missing their chances at preservation.
The question now arises as to which they were.As of June, when I was there, the following 7A types still existed.
It is believed that 7A members were the basis of this violation, which is surprising as the CMC/CTC were next in line (unless of course all these have already been done).
In coming days I shall be narrowing the list of suspects - if anyone else can help, please email me.
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UPDATED 27-07-2009 (11.53, 12.25, 12.36, 13.49)
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2001 - Believed to be one of the current scrappings!
2002 - Likely being scrapped.
2004 - AR Caloocan.
2005 - Believed to be one of the current scrappings!
2006 - In service
2007 - In service
2008 - In service
2009 - In service
2010 - SCRAPPED
2012 - AR Caloocan
2013 - AR Caloocan
2014 - In service
2015 - In service
2016 - In service
2017 - Believed slated for repair at Manila.
2018 - AR Caloocan
2019 - In service
2020 - Likely being scrapped.
2022 - AR Caloocan
2023 - AR Caloocan
2024 - AR Caloocan
2025 - In service
2026 - Likely being scrapped.
2027 - Believed scrapped in July before inaugeration.
2028 - AR Caloocan
2029 - In service
2030 - Believed slated for repair at Tayuman.

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