Seems the facts change with each different editor.
EMUs now DMUs
Gone from departing three weeks ago to due in July.
We are still awaiting the Phase 2 ROTEMs that reportedly left Korea two years ago.
Is Manila Bay the new Bermuda Triangle?
PNR’s ‘Bicol Express’ to resume running July 1
Quote:
NAGA CITY—More than four years since Super typhoon “Reming” derailed its commercial run from Manila to Bicol, the Philippine National Railways (PNR) is set to run again on July 1.
The PNR will run a six-coach train from Naga City to the Tutuban Station in Manila, and another from Manila to Naga City, said Constancio Toledano, manager of the South Railways’ Area 3 covering routes from Tagkawayan, Quezon to Legazpi City, Albay.
He said the trip would last less than 10 hours. Diesel-fed engines would pull the coaches.
A fare rate of P700-P800 would be charged for air-con sleeper coaches and at least P300 for the reclining seat coaches.
Toledano said there would be two air-con sleeper coaches: a 28-person capacity coach with a double-deck bed in one room and a 38-person capacity coach with two double-deck beds in one room.
He said there will also be two reclining seat coaches with a carrying capacity of 68 and 72 persons.
Another coach will serve as dining car for passengers, he said.
Toledano said the PNR would conduct two test runs on June 22 and June 28 before the July 1 commercial run.
He said it took the train nine hours and 50 minutes to reach Naga City from Manila during a test run on May 22 that carried top PNR officials, several journalists and guest passengers.
A return trip on May 23 took nine hours and 35 minutes, said Toledano.
Toledano said the PNR would expand its Bicol commercial run as soon as 10 motorized train cars and 40 trailer cars donated by the Japanese government arrive in July.
He described the motorized train cars as akin to buses with one coach attached to an engine and with accommodations for passengers. It pulls several other passenger trailer cars.
The current PNR train has a separate coach to house the engine which consumes more fuel than motorized train cars that are similar to buses in terms of fuel efficiency.
The arrival of the train cars from Japan would allow the PNR to service short distance routes, said Toledano.
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2532 had the distinction of being the very last in the reverse version of green and yellow.
2509 also had seen better days by the time I came across her. Wearing the more standard green/yellow scheme, this bunch of scrapping wiped out all but one wearing these colours, the survivor still exists to this day.
921 (919 at other end) is seen at Tayuman station. They were being used on the shorted Caloocan and Espana shuttle services. The early 2000s would see both the livery and these services end.
Argueably one of the better liveries worn by PNR diesels, the red with yellow lining was not a long survivor. Introduced around the time of the new 5000s, it was worn also by a few 2500 class and all surviving 900s.
When I took this shot I had no idea it would lead to many years of trying to find out the history behind 916. No builders lists include her, no record of her having actually been delivered actually exists.
The second 908 (originally 904) during her final moments of life. She would soon go to Caloocan, where she would sit of many years, slowly being robbed of parts, until her rotten carcus was finally scrapped in 2009.
