Philippines railroad history?

BoxcabE50 Mar 17, 2007

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Going back to World War II, I'd like to know more about the "Luzon Military Railroad." Especially a map, and list of station names. Anyone have a resource at hand?

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    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Nobody has a suggestion?

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  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Sorry, all I have is this photo my dad took in Tarlac Provence in the Phillippines on a sugar cane plantation around 1960. Not much help.
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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Below is why I'm asking. Trying to decipher the writing, so to know where these were copied:

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  5. Ed M

    Ed M Passed away May 2012 In Memoriam

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    While I have nothing on "Luzon Military Railroad", I would expect that it would be the same layout / routing as the existing railroad there before the war. Maybe just searching on some combination of Luzon, Railroad, Philippines and some other key words might bring up a system map (even curent) that would give you some leads.

    Or, how about a Google Earth (or something similar) search of the island to see if you can pick out the lines, then correlate that with a regular map of the island. Or maybe a map of the island might still show rail lines.

    Here are a couple of sources that i turned up in a search. Nothing real specific, but some history of rail on the island, and some branch names. Note that the Wikipedia article has a map (enlargeable) that you might be able to correlate with a more detailed Luzon map. Also looks like the army had control over the railway system only from the end of the Pacific War until Feb 1946.
    http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr22/F38_Satre.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_National_Railways
    http://www.pnr.gov.ph/history.htm
    http://www.pnr.gov.ph

    Maybe some of this may be of help.

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  6. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Well, after jumping from link, to link, to link, have come upon what I believe is one identity. The middle clearance card may be from Muntinlupa. Which after more searching, seems to be a city adjacent to Manila.

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  7. sdrailway

    sdrailway New Member

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    Hi

    Yes Muntilupa is a suburb of Manila - I have connections in the Philippines (having lived there for many years) and know most of the places in and around Luzon and Manila I can't read the writing on your scans it seems to light if you have broken spelling of a place name I will do what I can to identify for you.

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