COMING SOON

We start a multi-part look at the huge Caloocan railway workshops 

over the last 20 years.

Photos of the trains and the workshops themselves, along with personal notes and anything else we may, or may not, find along the way.

At this point, I would  like to acknowledge the continuing help of the 

'Philippine National Railways' in allowing me to access this location to record all this.
I would like to especially acknowledge current General Manager, Mr Junn Magno, who has been a great inspiration in my desire to record as much of the place as possible.

This is particularly important at this time with the workshop expected to be replaced, and demolished, to make way for a new north line depot.

Philippine Railway Historical Society

Changes / Groups / Guff

  Yahoo  recently made an announcement informing the world that their long running Yahoogroup service would be ending later this year.
 This has not come as a major surprise, as the closure has been rumoured for quite some time now. However, while use of the platform has declined greatly, thanks to alternatives like Facebook, there are still a significant amount of groups that still operate there.

  The 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' is one of those groups. We originally started on Egroups in 1999, but became part of Yahoogroups when they were taken over. The Yahoogroup was significantly busy for over a decade, however friction within the group, coupled with the emerging Facebook group platform, has seen postings dwindle greatly. Today there is little more than a couple of posts a month, hardly justifying the group at all, but left due to the huge amount of stuff residing in the database there.

  It was this immense database of history that had me most concerned. There is a lot of information there that would disappear with the group, some of it shared by people who have passed away.

  It would just be unthinkable that it should be lost.

Thankfully, this worry has been removed. I have been able to download the entire database and have started the mammoth task of cleaning it all up into one semi-decent looking file.
As this process, which will likely take a couple of years, progresses, I will be sharing some of the more interesting posts on our PRHS Facebook group and Twitter account.

Also currently being saved is the bulk of photos and documents that have been downloaded into the group files sections. Again, it is hoped that these can be re-shared with people in the future.

After much though, and a few discussions, I decided to finally give in to the Twitter thing. I have had an account for a while, but never used it. So I find myself in new territory as I explore all that can be done with the new 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' account.
If you are on Twitter, please come and join us.

Over the years, the PRHS has expanded into a number of different areas. While still primarily a railway, and railway hobby, promoting group, there are many of us with wider interests.
Below are listed all these groups and websites.
The PRHS promotes both the Philippine railway hobby, as well as friendship.
Come join us.

Website
Blogsite
Facebook Group - Nearly 2000 members
Facebook Page
PRHS on Twitter - New and growing.

Philippine Transportation Group
Road - Air - Sea

Buses - Ferries - Planes - Taxies - Jeepneys - Trikes

Philippine Railfans Into Overseas
Railways Group
Discussions about railways outside the Philippines.

PRHS - Philippine Jeepney

Anything related to the endangered "King Of The Road"

Philippine / Australia Aviation Fans
Topics pertaining to Philippine and Australian aviation

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We also recommend the following 
closely related groups.

Philippine Association of Rail Enthusiasts (PARE)
Our locally based sister group.



PH Model Railroaders
The Philippines leading model train group.

Lucena Rail Heritage Commitee

Our friend down in Lucena City.


Meycauayan Railway Precinct
A local joint-venture with the PRHS.

For nearly 21 years we have strived to make a truly great Philippine railway hobby. There have been many ups and downs, but we battled on and still we grow.
We may be fare-welling an era with the demise of our Yahoogroup, 
but we still have many great times ahead.
Mabuhay!

PHILIPPINE RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

MORE THAN JUST TRAINS

While the group is primarily known for it's interest in trains (not surprisingly), a large amount of us have an interest in the wider transport scene.
In addition to our railway related groups, you can find ones covering Philippine aviation, buses, ferries, trikes and taxis.
Links to some of these groups can be found below, lets journey back a decade and enjoy some photos of the endangered jeepney back in 2009.

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Interested in public transportation around the Philippines?
You will be welcome aboard.

PRHS-Philippine Transportation.
Road - Air - Sea Transport Only

PRHS Philippine Jeepney - All Things Jeepney

PRHS Philippine/Australia Aviation Fans
Aviation Chat From Both Countries.

All groups are international English based groups, aimed at bringing people together from around the world, to share a mutual interest in Philippine transport.

7A-2019 (Japan - 12-325)

Photos: Tutuban Station 

Built in 18-3-1977 (Japan)
Type: Oha 12

Withdrawn from service in 21-12-1999
Donated to the Philippines.

Situation- Scrapped in 2015

Thanks to PRHS moderator, and special roving reporter, Mark Chua for his help with this posting.

Mark was able to cover the scrapping of 7A-2019 back in 2015. Some of these photos appear below.
Salamat Mark.

All the photos below remain the copywrite of Mark Chua.

RAILFAN ARTWORK

The Philippine railway hobby is blessed with some incredibly talented artists. Over the last couple of months I have noticed a large rise in artistic effort, both electronic and traditional, and felt it was time to showcase some of this here on our blog.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to share 

their work with us.

For discussion about these images, and many more, feel free to join our fast growing

PRHS Facebook group.

Above three drawings from one very talented artist.

Artwork: Fremel Bernal

Part of a railway based cartoon drawn by Robert Cordoba.

Reynante Bulaon does some wonderful real live, and imaginary, liveries.

Angela Piguing (above two shots)

Bradly Coulter

Dirk Paul Celoso

Ichiro Akiro Suzuki

Jhay Hadlocon

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'Philippine Railway Historical Society'

is now on Twitter.
Follow us for more Philippine railway photos, news and information.

Of course, our main group, and page, remain on Facebook.

For free publications, and further information, check out the PRHS website.