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Meralco Centennial Museum

  • March 4, 2007
  • Rated 3 of 5 by panda1 from ., California
Meralco Centennial Museum

Meralco Museum highlights the history of its company's existence starting with a DVD media presentation from the beginning of the 20th century getting the rights to develop energy distribution network; starting up and running a successful streetcar service until its destruction from World War II. The company was on the brink of bankruptcy after WWII and decided to only focus on power distribution and drop the street car rebuilding. The company's acronym is Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company.

The company was started by Charles M. Shift and incorporated 1903 in the state of New Jersey.

It's amazing visiting here to find out there was up to 127 rail streetcars actually running in Manila by the 1920s.

The Manila government once again in the 1980s asked Meralco to setup and run the MRT for five years, then sold it back to the government for PHP1. Manila, currently has two LRT lines running.

The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9am to 6pm. Telephone +63.2.631.5575, photo ID required at entrance gate.

Metro station Ortigas.

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