Philippine Railway Historical Society

20th Anniversary 
 

  To celebrate our 20th anniversary of our sister group, the Semi Retired Foamer published a special anniversary magazine for railway management and railfans in the Philippines.
  I have been in Manila and busy handing it out to both.
  Twenty years of being part of this wonderful country. It has had it's ups and downs, but has always been an oasis away from the stupidity of the hobby back in Australia.
  I thank everyone here for welcoming me. There will be a series of videos coming in 2019 on our YouTube channel.

  Below are just some of the people I was lucky to catch up with on the recent visit. Some old friends of many years, many meeting for the first time. It was certainly an interesting trip and made the 20th anniversary the best year yet.

Happy 20th Anniversary PRHS and Happy New Year.

Meeting with PNR GM Sir Junn Magno

Tutuban HQ, Manila

Finally times a visit with that of Graham Corry from the UK.
Think we could have had a 24 hour marathon chatting seesion :-)

Romy (PNR Naga, Bicol Region)

Eng Regulto, a very long term employee of the PNR.

Atty Lauta who helped make my official visits possible.

JC Anthony

This posting was first put together back in 2011.
Somehow it managed to go into the draft section, never to see light of day (well, light of computer screen).
There are a number of other posts that have suffered the similarly. All have since been brought forth and placed out there for viewing.
This one I decided to bring forward eight years for your belated enjoyment. 


The XPT

The XPT has been one of those trains that I have never purposely gone out of my way to get.

However, during ones career as a foamer these less than riveting examples of rollingstock do seem to pop up with endless regularity and, while not what I spent six hours driving to see, they do fill in the gaps between the real stuff.

Of course, as with anything, as time progresses these photos become more and more historically important.

So while I doubt you will be popping your suspenders with excitement, I hope you will enjoy these few examples of passing XPTs

Meeting at Wauchope.

XPT bursts out of the tunnel above Picton.


XPT literally screaming through Gerogery back when it stoped at Albury.

Wallendbean

Menangle Park station looking a little the worse for wear.

Fassifern

Cootamundra

Delec Wheel Lathe

Heading north out of Paterson.

And finally we have a southbound XPT negotiating the curves out of Stroud Road.

C class failed on the main south.
Not an unfamiliar sight with EMDs

C504 failed at Yass Junction.
So good, it was worth a second look.