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The Inter-Provincial Commuter is a 77-kilometer (48 mi) commuter and regional rail service from San Pablo to Calamba, Laguna and San Pablo to Lucena, Quezon. [23] It has been proposed as part of the PNR South Long Haul project in 2019. [32] The service made its first trial run on February 14, 2022, [23] and was reopened on June 26. [25]
On April 6, 1970, PNR inaugurated the Metro Manila Commuter Service, which started at Manila North Harbor and ended in Biñan station in Laguna. [25] After numerous expansions, the commuter service served thousands of daily riders in its system and had an expansive network in and out of Metro Manila. [ 26 ]
It was first inaugurated as the Metro Manila Commuter Service in 1970, and originally served the North Main Line and the South Main Lines, as well as the defunct Carmona and Guadalupe branch lines. Since then, it adopted several names such as Metrotrak [ 4 ] and Metrotren , [ 5 ] before adopting its present name in the late 2000s.
Manila–Laguna freight revival – The Department of Transportation said it plans to revive the operation of a container cargo rail from Port Area in Manila to Laguna province. [3] The tracks towards the berths of Manila International Container Terminal and Manila North Harbor to Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal in Calamba, Laguna will ...
On July 25, 1971, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-321C named "Clipper Rising Sun" was on a cargo flight from San Francisco to Saigon. While on a VOR/DME approach onto Manila runway 24, the aircraft struck Mount Kamunay at an altitude of 770 meters (2,525 ft). The four occupants were killed.
It left Manila by 11 PM and arrived in San Fernando by 4:30 AM the next day. It was serviced by then-new PNR 900 class diesel-electric locomotives and five coaches capable of seating 912 people. After ending in San Fernando station, commuters would take the bus to Ilocos Norte and Sur, and Benguet.
So far, the California High-Speed Rail Authority has laid 119 miles of track in the Central Valley and created more than 12,000 jobs at a cost of $11.2 billion.
In 1927, wetlands on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay were filled to form an airport with an east–west runway, three hangars, an administration building, and a yacht harbor. By 1930, United States Army Air Corps operations referred to the site as Benton Field. Pan Am used the yacht harbor as their California terminal for trans-Pacific ...