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  • in 3:26 I saw something a trolley piggybacking on a MetroTren coach!

    Good the home along da riles was removed because they put danger to their lives and also to the train passengers lives (throwing stones on trains?)

    I missed trains passing by in our place in Caloocan. Now there is no future when the Northrail will be completed.

  • Hmmm would it be unfair to say that the railway system (and the boroughs around it) is in need of a minor overhaul ?

  • Now 2012 this line is almost world class railway with super clean stations and ac. trains see my video made in Jan 2012

  • Judging by the doubletrack, the route must have seen larger amounts of service in the past. I bet the railroad was loosing money so it cut back on service and raised fares, hence the large amount of trollies.

  • at 4:18 nice bow in the rail where the joint is

  • The home made trollies actually protect the rails from being stolen.

    Yet, the shanties are already gone.

  • What the heck at 3:20 it looks like there is a guy on a picnic table on the back of the train? the fudge?

  • i can;t believe this is a railway it's a joke.

  • woooow

    

  • Well that was a nice long trip through FUNKY TOWN!

  • looks like Detroit with palm trees.......

  • Blimey, I used to work on the railways here in the UK and people think our railways are bad............

  • wow man can you inmangine a derail there hell it take out half th poupluation in one swoop

  • Thats some mighty fine track work!

  • Raw "People doing what they have to do to live".

    Great video :)

  • @mr2gti Until the PNR gets surplus CSX/NS engines and starts running coaches a la BNSF Z-train style. We'll see the results very, very fast.

  • In fact this is not the situation anymore...there no slums anymore in the PNR railtracks

  • I love this video - people seem happy although to our (western) eyes they live in seeming abject poverty. It's nice to see how closely the railway fits in with people - they all make way for the train with a friendly wave and I love those home made 'rail skates'! Now THAT is ingenuity for you! ViVa Philippines!

  • @colliecandle No human should live this way. You're trying to make it like everything is ok. This is unacceptable for any human, and things SHOULD be better. Would you be happy living under these conditions? Just because this is all these people know does NOT make it right. They have the right to live the way that you live.  In good conditions.

  • @oneworldkingdom Umm, NO, I have never said it's 'OK' as you put it. Stop trying to put words into my mouth (albeit metaphorically) if you take the time to read what I posted, I said 'SEEM' not are ! As for living in those conditions - I'd sooner be happy with less, than living a miserable existance with more ! And we ALL live in a dictatorial world where the many are controlled by the few although, as you say, it doesn't make it right ! Since WHEN has 'right' prevailed in this world ??

  • @oneworldkingdom This is the truth about poverty in the Philippines, the counterpart of ghettos in the US of A,, fabellas in Brazil, slums in 3rd world countries. The difference is, the Filipinos are so resilient, what they don't have they do not look for it, they are satisfied with what they have now but aspire for a better future by making education of their kids their priority, helping each other. Here, people lose their jobs and they kill their entire family.. Just watch this videos, learn

  • @Batulao83 I lived in the Philippines for 5 years. My wife is filipino. I learned enough to know the description you just gave in that comment is a lie. Its not that the people are resilient. Resilient is coming back stronger and better. This does not describe their condition or the people. Ghettos in the US is luxury compared to this. These people are trapped in a system that has imprisoned their minds to accept their way of life. For many of them, this is all they know.

  • @oneworldkingdom I grew up like them, so I know resiliency, nevery giving up, being poor is the worst in the world esp, in the Philippines where there is no welfare, no unemployment, not enough assistance to the poor and the homeless. I also worked in a govt ofc there and I know the reason for being poor, people having kids without the capability to support them financially. It becomes a cycle, when the kids are not able to go to school, get a job and live a good life. Need population control

  • @jivanta23

    STFU!!!If you hate our culture,well its ok,but dont insult us filipinos...because we have much richer culture than yours!!

  • This should be a wake up call to our government and us (Philippine citizen itself) but who should make the first move?

  • Lol @3:24 guy in a trolley hooked onto the train

  • this actually prevents aliens from taking over our planet.

  • Remove this fucking video. Don't degrading and humiliating my own country.

  • @Sajo356209 its real so do good in school to stop this chaos

  • Yeah, cause these guys decided to be born here. Fuck them and their culture, they are the scum of the earth because they aren't like us.

  • @jivanta23 STFU.you hella racist.

  • @m1k3y0011 I'm going to assume that you are just a child, one that does not understand sarcasm.

  • @jivanta23 That is just rude. Imagine someone saying that to your culture. Have a bit of respect, we are all human beings.

  • @KatherineADP Hello Katherine, thank you for taking time to reply to my comment. However if you if you read it with any amount of scrutiny you would understand that I was being sarcastic. This is evident by the fact that you do not choose to be born.

  • i m deaf now .....

  • What we need is a Japanese style tsunami to wash it all away!!

  • @siobhan104 yea cause all those people deserve to die right?

  • San lugar Ito gusto ko sasakay train at looking a small garden to rent it's look cool and breathtaking scenic view.

  • I have been to lots of 3rd world countries. Oh my God I have never seen any filthy country and lack of basic necessities as in this clip. Leaders of this nations should be ashamed of them selves.

    Philippines politicians must be vey corroupt, people are living in filth, no cloths on their body. I am sick to my stomach and very sad to see this clip. This country Philippines need a revolution.

  • @desikartoos what you are seeing is the 30-40% of the country's poor population. And you are correct, there's a lot of corruption going on in the government. The country's government doesn't prioritize the well being of its citizens, money is usually spend on businesses. That's why you'll see an abundance of Malls in the country or other establishments (which only a certain percent of the population can afford ).

  • It is so amazing nobody gets runover, or houses are destroyed by the trains, though it is inches away from the structures. In the US of A despite the warnings, the wood barrier, all the traffic stops, people still get killed. So perplexing. There should be orientation of the people on stopping the throwing of trash on the trains.

  • @Batulao83 Theres nothing perplexing about this video. Shocking yes. And people do get run over. Just because no one died in ths video or was ran over doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

  • 私は2010年、全国の鉄道の方法は、新しいレール、列車、変更­フィリピン古いマニラの電車だと思います..この列車は、フィリ­ピン政府、過去10年間1990年から2007年の腐敗の結果で­あることを悪く見える理由

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  • Dirty Piere would be proud of you

  • If you think you've seen it all well I'm telling you is isn't. Those RATS actually consider the trains as garbage trucks. There was just a foreigner on the train that those lowlifes didn't throw garbage on the roof of that train.That's why in the P.I. roof of trains are sloped steeply to get rid of those garbage.The tracks and the trains were rehabilitated unfortunately those skwakas remain a menace. Reason for putting heavy grills of train windows.

  • @MrTaipan55

    Why the insane hatred for people presumably less fortunate than yourself Mr Taipan?

    A very ugly impression you make here, I must say.

  • @sekundar Being poor doesn't mean your community should be filthy. There are more poor people in the provinces but they organize their community to clean their sorroundings. Unlike these skwakas who like to live like rats.

  • @MrTaipan55

    'Skwakas', 'rats'. 'scums' (sic) - do these unpleasant and ridiculous names make it easier for you to avoid having a single useful thought about these people?

    Apparently you don't live in the Philippines and I doubt you can be a serious student of Philippine affairs. What is the basis for your claims? Do you have any actual knowledge of the district shown in the video? Do you even know where it is?

    Could you provide one piece of factual information to support what you say?

  • @MrTaipan55 Alot of these ppl have come from the provinces around the phils with the belief that life is better in manila. They sell everthing they owned land, house,car, etc. Only to find out that life isnt great and they wouldve been better off where they came from.

    And to call these ppl rats is pathethic. Oh and the provinces arent as clean as you claim its the same per head of Pop. I have travelled a fair bit in the Phils and Manila is the way it is because of local gov not the ppl.

  • 3:24 Towing service...lol!

  • can we send all the skaters in the world to manila so they can skate all day and make a few dollars while doing it. than they can call themselves pros

  • Wow ang galing!Matandang train na 60 años tumatakbo pa.saludo!

  • URGENT WARNING: Earthquake and Tsunami Coming in the Philippines (March25) watch?v=Bf70KnMZY74

  • grabe!!! dapat pinapaalis na ang mga tao dyan,, peligro ang buhay nila.... PROPER ZONING talaga ang kailangan... at DISIPLINA.

  • thats crazy there. best idea is a Monorail in the Philippines. just like the Disneyland Monorail and its overhead instead on ground level

  • what a shithole..

  • ang ingay ingay uod lg pla lalabas 0:11

  • Great vid, take me back to my rilez days...

  • thats a old paint before the blue paint in on now

  • Holy shit... This is one part of the Philippines I've never seen before.

  • pasaway talaga mga sqauter dyan

  • You have some video shot in the Sta Mesa area. I know that place - grew up in the area back in the 80s.

  • Are all standing train passengers tickets free??

    hahaha...

  • @btho

    you can see this images starting from tutuban station in manila all the way to alabang station..sad thing for us filipinos because most countries use the trains as their major public transport but in the philippines no president has ever paid attention in it.

  • Where is this? Ive never ever seen a train in Manila except for LRT. I know that there are railway tracks there but as far as i know its for the railway being built from Manila to Legaspi by a Japanese company.

    Id love ot know where this is if anyone could enlighten me.

  • oh my god!this is realy scary

  • After driving trains in Sydney Australia for years I've got nothing to stress out about after watching this.....Great video Thanks

  • Hole shit, I'd love to live here, the rail lines are roads!

  • definitivamente todo lo que tocan los españoles lo vuelven mierda.

  • anybody knows in what area this homemade railtaxis are operating? really wished to visit that place

  • ha ha 3.26 a trolley hitches a lift...brilliant and scary

  • about time pnr got some investment, those cape gauge tracks are a joke

  • DAMN..THATS FUCKED UP

  • is just crazy! great video though, Geoff. UP. Gian ;-)

  • This HAS to be the best video on railways EVER!!! Hahahah! What a crazy place! 'elf 'n safety' would shit 'emselves!!! I LOVE those Phillipino people!

  • old trains and a lot of those slums beside the tracks are now gone...

  • This video shows the poverty of the Filipinos. tsk tsk tsk. Poor Filipinos...

  • Hindi na kadak landa par titi ne chadawu

  • Kawawa naman ang Pilipinas. Naging parang isang malaking dumpsite.

  • when is this taken?

  • CALLING THE PRESIDENT"S ATTENTION!

  • 3:26 lol he strapped it to the train!!

  • Ahh, the ingenuity of the Filipinos with those home made trollies. So awful that many have to live in such squalor. I've only ever seen on train in Philippines in my 4 visits there since 2006, in Legaspi, Albay area, it was a few blocks away, might have been a G-12, and recall seing hand trollies with things like huge sacks of rice on the tracks at other times. Looks like one of those (in lead clip) is a U26C...

  • this is just a result of unrestrained and unplanned population growth

  • thats how we roll

  • wow i'd b scared to ride the train through that bridge

  • this is old... no more like this....

  • tang ina kasi nasanay na mga ibang pilipino na mag tayo ng bahay sa gilid ng tren tapos wala p disiplina kung saan nlang itapon ung basura nila, nakakahiya tuloy sa ibang bansa

  • this is an old train in philippines

  • interesting...

  • Just wonder why Philippines Tourism Authority plans to capture only upscale tourists..

  • Nice post !!.....at least we can see how the people lived at the side of the track but unfurtunetly i am sad to look the people crossing the track when the train approch and might hit by the train.. !!!

  • @afnadh Don't be sad about those RATS!!! It's much better if the trains run over those stinking scums!!!

  • such poverty can only be solved with fair and democratic elections,and sound balanced rational economic policy

  • @LordVito9 It's no use however if P.I. keeps breeding stupid dumbass skwakas!!! who don't know how to elect a good leader.

  • Video eccezionale...

  • allucinante!

  • helllo joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ha ha ha all the time

  • incredibile! emozionante..e tanta tristezza per le condizioni "disumane" in cui vive la popolazione.....bello il v.d....grazie del post.*****

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  • Impresionante

  • Quite a depressing video. Just exactly what happened to our beloved Philippines? How did we get so poor? Got an idea . . . . . Let's not elect or re-elect those inexperience celebrities to key positions in our political government! Agree?

  • Reminds me of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.

  • Fascinating video. It must be hard to live like that.

  • Just goes to show that in the Philippines, trains don't use rails. People do. I was born in the Philippines and I know how difficult being a squatter living near rail tracks is (Thank God I wasn't a squatter myself). Everyday when I was little, I saw a couple of trolleys using the tracks. Probably a train or two.

  • How is this chaos? Clearly, you must be a foreigner.

    This is how Filipino's near the railway relax, cause the outdoors is more nice to hang out in. And since trains rarely come (well, in our part of the Philippines anyway), people see it no harm to just sit on the tracks and get off when they hear the horn.

    Simple as that. But I understand where you're coming from since one day, those benches would be crashed into by the train (though there isn't that much cases regarding that)

  • @dragonflychaser12

    Hah yeah. But this breaks nearly every Health and safety law in Europe though. Looks quite dangerous, I see allot of minors around on this video, child around a rail way line isn't a very good thing.

  • @MattsHotelRetro I understand what you mean. And I know that people + moving trains = not good. But it's best not to underestimate kids in the philippines (specially those around 5-10). They're surprisingly more street smart than that of children in thriving countries (same could be said with other places with huge numbers of poverty and/ or third world countries)

  • @dragonflychaser12

    I understand that also. But to most people outside of the Philippines this way of living is well disturbing. A mother wouldn't even dream of letting there children play on a rail way here even if they are used to it and trains don't pass by so often. It would be nice to see your government invest in proper housing rather than these shanty towns with a rail way running through the middle of them but that's my point of view.

  • @MattsHotelRetro Proper housing WOULD be nice... Though, we are also famous for our corrupt government... And even if they did invest in housing projects, it's not like they could relocate over a thousand people in one go. Relocating people, even bit by bit, is sometimes seen as people by "taking their homes". And cause of the energy resource depletion, specially in dams, nowadays, I'm guessing more money will be invested into that for years to come. And good housing location is also an issue.

  • San Andres riles ftw!!!

  • Um... HOW is this "chaos"?

    You've never seen trains pass through city squares in London or Stockholm, have you?

  • Why are you saying this to me? Am i the one who made this video?

  • what r they riding on the rails with

  • kapag nilagyan pala ng dinamita buong kahabaan ng riles mauubos ang iskwater.

    haha.. sarap pasabugin. 90% siguro ng snatcher at holdaper sa pinas mawawala.

  • 2:04 We should turn left here! Oh, forget about it...

  • OMG !

  • i suppose this was taken in the late '90's. lots of changes have happened since then

  • 6:18 - wala pa ung malaking building ng paco catholic school...

  • 3:22 - was it a 2500 whale or 5000 ?

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  • yea! i think it's 2516 or 2515

  • LOL 3:24

  • lovely...

  • I miss that day the red and white trains of PNR! I remember my ride in the Peñafrancia express way back 1994!

  • NICE SHOT! I LOVE IT...

  • oh my gosh very dirty

  • Cool, Those were the days.

  • This professional video is the best I ever saw about the PNR railway. Thank you, Geoff Mackley

  • The Red Whale Loco #919 is now called a Blue Whale and still running.

  • Worst Train ever..

  • your face is more worse than this!!!! suck that

  • your face is more worse than this...suck that!

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