Chugging along the railroad

I was back in Brgy. Palasan Concepcion in Sariaya, Quezon when I chanced upon grade schoolers on their way home. The cheapest and fastest way to get to where they were going home to was to ride the skates.
These makeshift trolley runs along the railroad. These are made of wooden carts running on bearings. Many are powered by a gasoline motor about less than a horsepower. As you can see, a skate doesn't leave the "station" until its overflowing with passengers.
There's a driver who collects three pesos discounted student fare and five pesos for regular passengers. For this ride, the skates will ferry their passengers for about three kilometers. In a usual run, the skates can go all the way to Lucena City.The longest run that these skates made was from Sariaya to Los Baños, Laguna when a group of foreigners tried to ride the skate up to the University of the Philippines. Care to try one yourself?