Mukhang yung coaches lang ata pinapaganda sa mga trains eh. Yung makina, hindi. Ayan.....bumigay na.


http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...-inaugural-run




PNR train bogs down in inaugural run

NAGA CITY, Philippines - It took more than five hours for the commuter train of the Philippine National Railways to travel through the 80-kilometer stretch (not 377 km as earlier reported) in its inaugural run, on Wednesday.

And before it could embark on another trip, the old engines of the train, which traveled from Tagkawayan, Quezon, to Naga City, in Camarines Sur, bogged down.

Leaving Tagkawayan station at about 5 a.m., the commuter train, which was expected to arrive at 9 a.m. at the Naga PNR Station, came an hour late.

Nevertheless, the train was welcomed here by the excited crowd, who had not been served by the PNR, for three years.

The PNR has scheduled the Tagkawayan-Naga, Naga-Ligao, Ligao-Naga, and Naga-Tagkawayan trips.

But before the commuter train could leave this city to its final Bicol destination in Ligao City in Albay, the locomotives broke down and were sent to the shop for repair.

"The engines are old so they shut down," locomotive operator Romeo Caucil told the Daily Inquirer.