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	Panama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Panama (Spanish: Panamá, IPA [re'puβlika ðe pana'ma]), commonly known as Panama, is the southernmost country of Central America.
		Much of Panama's domestic politics and international diplomacy in the 20th century was tied to the Panama Canal and the foreign policy of the United States.
		Panama is located in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panama (1819 words)

	Panama Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Panama Railway was built during the period of 1850 to 1855.
		Since the railroad's docks had been completed by this time, and rail had been laid 7 miles up to Gatún, it was possible to unload the ships' cargoes of emigrants and transport them by rail — using construction vehicles — for at least the first part of their journey across the isthmus.
		Ownership of the railroad was originally by a publicly traded corporation based in New York City, which bought exclusive rights to build across the isthmus from the government of Colombia, Panama being a province of Colombia at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panama_Railway (1573 words)

	Panama Canal & Railroad Project
		Panama Canal and adjoining railroad operation were experiencing severe construction delays and the newly commissioned officers of West Point were choosen to oversee the construction efforts.
		The Railroad was critical to the construction of the Canal in a supporting role for supplies and logistics, and under the guidance of the engineers slowly became a functioning, well-managed division of the canal.
		The restructure of the Panama Railroad by a twenty-five year old young man allowed trains to freely transport supplies, the removal of millions of tons of dirt, the accessibility of large steam shovels to remote regions to dig the canals path, and the later supply and support of the canal by rail.
	chronicles.dickinson.edu /studentwork/sheridan/steese/PanamEssay.html (2859 words)

	Panama City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Panama City (Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá), population 708,738, is the capital of Panama, located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, at 8°58′N 79°32′W.
		Between 1848 and 1869, the year the first transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States, about 375,000 persons crossed the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 225,000 in the opposite direction.
		Panama City's international airport is Tocumen International Airport located on the eastern outskirts of the city and easily accessible by a modern toll road from the financial district.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panama_City (1857 words)

	Panama Railroad Stock Certificates, 1865, 1868, 1871
		Completed in 1855, fourteen years before the rails were joined at Promontory Summit, Utah, the Panama Railroad was the first railroad to traverse the continent and so also has a claim on the title of "first transcontinental railroad." The Panama Railroad was a great improvement over traveling and carrying mail overland through the Panama jungle.
		The Central Pacific Railroad had to be built with supplies shipped by sea from the east to the west coast and the Panama railroad was an shortcut alternative to sailing supplies around Cape Horn.
		Theodore Judah also died of tropical disease as a result of crossing Panama, and Lewis Metzler Clement's wife traveled on the Panama Railroad to reach California to join her husband while he built the Central Pacific Railroad across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
	cprr.org /Museum/Ephemera/Panama_Railroad_Stock_1868.html (840 words)

	History of the Panama Railroad-Overview
		The Indians in the region of Belen at the time of Columbus' discovery were very friendly; they wore plates of gold suspended around their necks and weighted their fishing nets with gold nuggets.
		In 1519 Pedrarias moved his capital away from the debilitating climate and unfriendly Indians of the Darién to a fishing village on the Pacific coast (about four kilometers east of the present-day capital).
		Panama (the first European settlement on the west coast of the hemisphere), became the centre of commercial activity and the springboard for the conquest of Peru.
	www.trainweb.org /panama/history.html (1374 words)

	Panama Railroad
		This railroad was to connect the old, colonial city of Panama, on the Pacific coast, with some point on the Caribbean coast.
		The need to finish the railroad as soon as possible, was apparent, and there was hope that it would be completed by 1852, and contracts were negotiated, with that in mind.
		The railroad lost a good source of revenue because its directors were inflexible, and had the attitude that its rates, established when the demand was great, were non-negotiable.
	www.bruce.ruiz.net /PanamaHistory/panama_railroad.htm (4589 words)

	Juan David Morgan's new Spanish-language historical novel
		Panama is the site not only of the monumental engineering feat of building the famous Panama Canal, it is also the location for the monumental engineering feat of building the less-well-known Panama Railroad, the world’s first transcontinental railway, completed in 1855.
		The narrow Isthmus of Panama was a magnet for the transit from ocean to ocean.
		Heroine Elizabeth Benton is the rebellious daughter of a Missouri senator destined to find in Panama the deepest love and most tragic loss; famous travel writer and investor John Lloyd Stephens is one of Elizabeth’s husbands and president of the Panama Railroad; sea captain Cleveland Forbes is valiant, but unlucky in love.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_12/issue_02/review_04.html (553 words)

	The Panama Railroad (Part 2)
		The railroad was thus beyond question a source of wonderful profit to its fortunate owners; but the government of New Granada had by contract the right to purchase, in 1875, for $5,000,000, this property which it had cost $8,000,000 to establish, and which was paying twenty-fur per cent dividend on that amount.
		The railroad passed with the other assets of the Compagnie Universelle to the New Panama Canal Company in 1894, and from it to the United States in 1904, the valuation set upon it in the latter transaction being $7,000,000, the par value of outstanding stock.
		The rates on the Panama Railroad fixed by the canal authorities were high in comparison with those in the United States, first class fares being at the rate of five cents a mile.
	www.serve.com /CZBrats/Builders/Bennett/prr2.htm (3137 words)

	The Panama Railroad
		By November 1851, the Panama Railroad Company was faced with a bleak financial situation as construction costs soared and funds, supplies, and equipment were running low and financial disaster loomed.
		Railroad directors shipped passenger coaches to Totten and soon they were transporting passengers and baggage to the railhead that was constantly being extended further toward the Pacific.
		The Panama Railroad Company directors sailed down from New York on the United States Mail Steamship George Law along with their invited guests and arrived on February 15th at Aspinwall, the day that the celebration was to take place.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page62.html (5265 words)

	Panama: The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)
		This map, depicting the Isthmus of Panama from Panama City and Chorera on the Pacific Coast to Chagres and Portobelo Harbor on the Caribbean Coast, includes rivers, streams, settlements, an existing rail line, a proposed rail line to Panama City, a proposed canal, roads, a trail, coastline, coastal features, and anchorages.
		Map of the Panama Rail Road and adjacent country exhibiting the Rio Chagres and Mule roads from Gorgona to Panama and the ports of Limon, or Navy Bay on the Atlantic and the Bay of Panama on the Pacific....[Panama].
		This French map of a portion of the Huerta de Santa Cruz, Panama, includes the rail lines from La Boca, and the main rail line to the city of Panama from Colón, property lines, the village of Pueblo Nuevo, and canals and streams.
	www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/luso/panama.html (5022 words)

	The Panama Canal
		Likewise there was another piece of road from Panama city to the town of Venta de Cruces on the Chagres River, and from that point on navigation continued by boat upriver to the town of Portobelo.
		The Panama Railroad joined Panama city and the newly created city of Colon which at the time was named Aspinwall city.
		This railroad used a non-standard gauge of 5 feet but that changed a few years ago when the railroad was given a new life and rebuilt by the american company that now provides the service.
	www.coralys.com /panama/Default.aspx?id=PanamaCanal (3416 words)

	Trans-Panama railroad opens in July
		The railroad doesn’t view itself as a competitor to the Panama Canal, but as complementing the Canal and the free trade zone at Colon, and major port terminals at Colon, Balboa, Cristobal and Manzanillo.
		Maersk Sealand and the railroad held preliminary talks before formal negotiations were expected to begin the week of May 21.
		Moller sees the railroad as a viable option for over-flow cargo and for the repositioning of empty containers, but does not foresee an influx of post-Panamax vessels using the system due to cost factors.
	www.americanshipper.com /paid/JUN01/trans_panama.asp (1005 words)

	Panama Railroad: Panama City To Colon ~ by Matthew Atlee
		The railroad was built on this foundation, the foundation of wanting to cross the isthmus without dying.
		And in many ways the Panama Railroad is probably the greatest thing the Americans ever did Panama, even in some ways bigger than the Canal — we weren’t quite an empire in 1851; the Civil War was on the horizon.
		The American engineers on the railroad were Law and Aspinwell, later the town of Colon would be called Aspinwall, but the name disappeared when Colombia, which Panama was a province of at the time, would not recognize the American name.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/59/Railroad_Panama.html (1956 words)

	LatinTravel.com -- Panama
		Panama City: Founded in 1513 by the Spanish explorer Balboa, Panama City is both colonial and ultra-modern.
		Panama City retained its prominence as a center of trade and administration until 1671 when the city was sacked by the pirate Henry Morgan.
		Today popular excursions from Panama City include a visit to the ruins of the Old City, the Spanish fortifications at Portobelo, short launch rides to the flower island of Taboga, longer trips to the Chiriqui highlands for hunting and fishing, and a ride beside the canal on the historic Panama Railroad.
	www.latintravel.com /countries/regions.cfm?country=Panama (873 words)

	Panama - The California Gold Rush and the Railroad
		After surveys, a railroad was chosen, and a new contract so specifying was obtained in 1850.
		The railroad also created a new city and port at the Atlantic terminus of the line.
		The town that immediately sprang up to accommodate the railroad offices, warehouses, docks, and shops and to lodge both railroad workers and passengers soon became, and remains, the second largest in the country.
	countrystudies.us /panama/5.htm (487 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Convention Between the US And Panama (Panama Canal), 1903
		The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity, a monopoly for the construction, maintenance and operation of any system of communication by means of canal or railroad across its territory between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
		No part of the work on said Canal or the Panama railroad or on any auxiliary works relating thereto and authorized by the terms of this treaty shall be prevented, delayed or impeded by or pending such proceedings to ascertain such damages.
		If the Republic of Panama shall hereafter enter as a constituent into any other Government or into any union or confederation of states, so as to merge her sovereignty or independence in such Government, union or confederation, the rights of the United States under this convention shall not be in any respect lessened or impaired.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1903panama.html (1239 words)

	CK-5.6 (P.R.R.CO. Balboa Dock Laborer)
		Separate Panama Railroad checks were used probably starting in August, 1905 through January, 1915 when the separate checks were retired and the railroad employees used the Panama Canal checks.
		During the construction era, the Panama Railroad was a separate entity from the Canal operations for accounting purposes.
		The Panama Railroad employees were also United States government employees and were given access to all the same Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC) facilities as regular ICC employees.
	www.coins-of-panama.com /checks/ck5-6.html (362 words)

	The Panama Rail Road
		This web page is dedicated to the thousands of unknown workers from many countries who lost their lives during the construction of the fortyseven and a half miles of railroad joining the Atlantic city of Aspinwall (now known as Colón) with the Pacific city of Panama, making it the world's first transcontinental railway.
		The honor due these intrepid engineers, who with their men held to duty when it was more reasonable to leave it, has never been given: and the tragic fate that befell many of them has not been written in epic, song or story.
		Their only monument today is the Panama Railroad, the completion of which marked one of the greatest achievements of the age and will ever be a memorial to the dauntless courage of its brave builders and their story is one of the most gallant in the annals of commerce.
	www.trainweb.org /panama (145 words)

	Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. awarded Panama Railroad concession. - Business Wire - HighBeam Research
		The Panama Railroad Co. provides the shortest rail route (47.6 miles) between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, linking the ports of Balboa and Cristobal.
		The Panama Railroad was originally built in 1855 and then rebuilt in 1909 as part of the construction of the Panama Canal.
		The railroad was operated by the United States until 1979, when control of the railroad was returned to the government of Panama under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:18491437&refid=ink_tptd_np&skeyword=&teaser= (384 words)

	The American Experience/TR's Legacy/Panama
		His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad.
		On November 3, 1903, the nation of Panama was born.
		Railroad cars ran continuously on a double track, dumping the tailings to form the Charges dam.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/amex/tr/panama.html (1660 words)

	A Town
		Railroad gauges were not standard in those days; a five-foot gauge was adopted for the Panama Railroad.
		During the period of French control, the railroad’s equipment was increased and improved; the French Company’s director general rode in a $40,000 car.
		In 1905 he reported: "The Panama Railroad is very largely a creature of the canal … and the construction of the latter in the absence of the railroad would be practically impossible."
	www.czbrats.com /Articles/Town_RR_Canal.htm (1529 words)

	Train Wreck On Panama Railroad
		A passenger coach, two boxcars and the caboose of the Panama Railroad's early morning mixed train from Mt. Hope overturned at 5:35 a.m.
		The wreck was the most serious for the Panama Railroad since November 1944 when two trains collided at Caimito, north of Gamboa.
		At the point where the washout occurred, the railroad tracks run along an embankment of Gatun Lake with a hill on the opposite, or east, side of the train.
	www.czimages.com /CZMemories/PRRIke/newsart.htm (1073 words)

	Panama
		The advantages of an Isthmian railroad as a means of developing the trade of the United States with the growing republics of Central and South America was realized as early as 1835, when President Andrew Jackson appointed Mr.
		Although track had been laid from ocean to ocean, the railroad was in poor physical condition, and it was not until 1859 that its construction account was finally closed, at a total expenditure up to that time of $8,000,000.
		The entire stock of the Panama Railroad and Steamship Company is now owned by the United States, with the exception of one share transferred to each of the directors to enable them to qualify under the articles of incorporation.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/pcbk1.Html (3212 words)

	panamainfo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The park was created in 1985 to protect over 300,000 acres of rainforests as part of Panama’s conservation strategy and to conserve the watershed which provides over 50% of the fresh water needed for the operation of the Panama Canal, as well as the drinking water for the two largest cities in the country.
		The Panama Railway was inaugurated in 1856 and was the first train to cross from one ocean to the other.
		The completion of the trans-isthmian railroad was inspired by the Gold Rush when pioneers were in need of a fast and safe way to get to California.
	www.panamainfo.com /en/vacation/14 (794 words)

	The Panama Canal Railroad
		The French Panama Canal Company purchased the railroad in 1880 to assist in their attempt to build the Panama Canal.
		The United States rebuilt and operated the railroad until 1979, when it was transferred to Panama under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty.
		In 1998, Panama privatized the railroad and awarded a 50-year concession to the Panama Canal Company, a joint venture of Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products, to rebuild and operate the line.
	www.panamacanal.com /train.htm (521 words)

	Panama Invasion by United States in 1989: Background and chronology
		Any leader in Panama has two choices: be a puppet of U.S. Government without any real power or assert some independence, forcing reliance on nationalist base.
		U.S. forces carry out military exercises in the "white" areas that were returned to Panama in 1979 (as opposed to "green" areas still under U.S. control), as well as in outlying areas.
		The CIA is supposed to be bound by a 1976 law banning its involvement in assassination plots.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~hbf/panama.htm (2082 words)

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