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	Panama Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Panama Railway was built during the period of 1850 to 1855.
		The Atlantic terminal is in Colón, Panama; the Pacific in Panama City.
		The Panama Railway was originally 5' 0" gauge, but when it was rebuilt in 2000, the gauge was changed to 4' 8½" so as to use off the shelf equipment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panama_Railway (927 words)

	Panama Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Panama Canal is a large canal, 82 kilometres (51 miles) long, that cuts through the isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
		Because of the S shape of Panama, the Atlantic lies to the west of the canal and the Pacific to the east, the reverse of the customary orientation of those oceans to land in the Americas.
		The Panama Railway was built across the isthmus from 1850 to 1855.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Panama_Canal (1766 words)

	Panama Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The building of a canal in Panama was first speculated in the early 1500s, but not finished until almost 400 years later when the canal opened on August 15, 1914.
		The Panama Canal connects the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific ocean, with the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic.
		The issue is the seasonal nature of rainfall in Panama; the rainforest plays a role by absorbing this rain, and then releasing it at a steady rate into the lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panama_Canal (3534 words)

	Panama Railway - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was the most expensive railway per unit length of track built up to that time.
		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 was a province of Colombia at the time).
		When only 7 miles (10 km) of track had been completed the railway was doing a brisk business, charging 25 dollars per person for the train ride and another 10 dollars to walk the remaining 40+ miles (60 km) of right-of-way across the isthmus.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Panama_Railway (660 words)

	Panama Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The project was begun in 1850 and the railroad was completed in 1855 with the first train running from to ocean on 28 January of that year.
		The Atlantic terminal is in Colón Panama ; the Pacific in Panama City.
		The existence of the railway was in the selection of Panama as the of the canal.
	www.freeglossary.com /PCRC (832 words)

	Panama Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When only 7 miles (10 km) of track had been completed the railway was doing a brisk business, charging 25dollars per person for the train ride and another 10 dollars to walk the remaining 40+ miles (60 km) of right-of-way across theisthmus.
		Until the opening of the Panama Canal, it carried the heaviest volume offreight per unit length of any railroad in the world.
		The existence of the railway was key in the selection of Panama as the siteof the canal.
	www.therfcc.org /panama-railway-31253.html (646 words)

	Panama Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When only 7 miles (10 km) of track had been the railway was doing a brisk business 25 dollars per person for the train and another 10 dollars to walk the 40+ miles (60 km) of right-of-way across isthmus.
		Until the opening of the Panama Canal it carried the heaviest volume of per unit length of any railroad in world.
		After World War II few additional improvements were made to Panama Railway and it declined in the 20th century.
	www.freeglossary.com /Panama_Railway (832 words)

	pcrc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When only 7 miles of track had been completed the railway was doing a brisk business, charging 25 dollars per person for the train ride and another 10 dollars to walk the remaining 40+ miles of right-of-way across the isthmus.
		Until the opening of the Panama Canal, it carried the heaviest volume of freight per mile of any railroad in the world.
		At the time railway assets included some 75 miles of track, 35 locomotives, 30 passenger cars, and 900 freight cars.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /PCRC.html (669 words)

	COLON - LoveToKnow Article on COLON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is served by the Panama railway, which crosses the Isthmus of Panama from ocean to ocean.
		The most attractive parts are the American quarter, where the employs of the Panama railway have their homes, and the old French quarter, where dwelt the French officers during their efforts to build the canal.
		With the completion of the railway in 1855, the town supplanted Chagres (q.v.) as the principal Atlantic port of the isthmus.
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLON.htm (553 words)

	Panama Railway - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PANAMA: PLANS FOR $57,000,000 RAILROAD RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, PANAMA CANAL RAILWAY CO. [PANAMA/USA] - Order #: 064500.
		The saga of the Overfair Railway Pacifics: --from Panama to Poly
		The Panama ship canal and inter-oceanic ship railway projects: Paper read before the Engineers' club of Cleveland, Ohio,
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /panama_railway.htm (801 words)

	Panama Railway - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		The railway cost some 8 million United_States_dollars to build (8 times the initial estimate in 1850), and presented considerable engineering challenges, going over mountains, and through swamps.
		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 was a province of Colombia at the time).
		After World_War_II few additional improvements were made to the Panama Railway, and it declined in the late 20th century.
	www.indexsuche.com /Panama_Railway.html (647 words)

	Voyage Report - Royal Princess: Panama Canal Partial Transit
		The Atlantic to Pacific Railway Journey operates aboard the newly refurbished Panama Canal Railway alongside the Canal combined with a coach tour of the Pacific side of the Canal.
		Panama City by Day and Night is a coach tour to the Pacific side which includes dinner in Panama City ($79).
		The Panama Canal raillway was originally built in 1855 and played an important role in the development of the Canal itself.
	www.susanmilne.com /canal.htm (1867 words)

	Panama Canal Railway Company Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Panama Canal Railway Co. (PCRC), a joint venture of Kansas City Southern and Panama Holdings, LLC of Hazelcrest, Ill., providing ocean-to-ocean transshipment service between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans on a railway that runs parallel to the Panama Canal.
		Early in 1998, the government of Panama awarded the joint venture the exclusive 25-year concession to operate the railway.
		Financing for the new railroad was finalized in November 1999, and construction of the Panama Canal Railway began in February 2000.
	www.kcsi.com /corporate/pcrc.html (203 words)

	The American Experience/TR's Legacy/Panama
		Ample evidence supported de Lesseps' claims; the tiny cross-Panama railway had made in excess of $7,000,000 in the first six years of operation.
		Shortly after ascending to the presidency, Roosevelt spoke of the Panama Canal in a speech to Congress.
		On November 3, 1903, the nation of Panama was born.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tr/panama.html (1660 words)

	Panama Canal Railway Company History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Panama Railroad was built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1909 during construction of the Panama Canal.
		It was operated by the United States until 1979 when control was returned to the government of Panama under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty.
		On June 19, 1998, the government of Panama officially signed over the railway to the Panama Canal Railway Co. Construction began in February of 2000 and was completed in 2001.
	www.kcsi.com /corporate/pcrc_h.html (96 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)

	Wilson & Company Corporate Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ALBUQUERQUE (April 17, 2000)—; The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 served to dramatically improve the speed of maritime transportation between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.
		Modernization and widening of the Panama Canal, at a cost of $1 billion, is being funded entirely by the approximately $700 million annual revenue the Canal generates.
		The President of the Republic of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, officiated at a ceremony that marked the start of the railroad's reconstruction in Colón on February 15.
	www.wilsonco.com /Panama_Canal.asp (513 words)

	History of the Panama Railroad: The Chinese Tragedy
		The dire warnings of the perils to be faced in Panama from climate and malignant disease issued by Vanderbilt and his colleagues dissuaded many Americans from coming, but other nationalities - Irish, Hindus, Chinese, English, French, Germans, Malays - responded to the call.
		Early on the morning of March 30, 1854, the sober, right- thinking Argonauts who chose to stroll on the sea wall at Panama City rather than spend their time in saloons and card rooms were rewarded for their virtue by the sight of the clipper Sea Witch entering the harbor.
		They wrote Totten that the Panama Railroad Company was chartered under the laws of the State of New York, and the laws of that state forbade the unlicensed dispensing of drugs.
	www.trainweb.org /panama/chinesetragedy.html (2201 words)

	No. 1777: An UnPanama Canal
		The Isthmus of Panama is fifty miles wide.
		That railway only hinted at the murderous cost of building a canal.
		It would be the incubator for Ferdinand de Lesseps' abortive attempt to build a Panama Canal in the 1880s.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1777.htm (549 words)

	US investors open Panama Canal Railway [Free Republic]
		The Panama Canal Railway Co. (PCRC), a joint venture of KCSI and Mi-Jack Products of Hazelcrest, Ill., will provide ocean-to-ocean transshipment service between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans on a railway that runs parallel to the Panama Canal.
		On June 19, 1998, the government of Panama officially signed over the railway to the Panama Canal Railway Co. Construction began in February 2000 and will be completed by mid-2001.
		Panama has in turn leased the Canal to the Chinese company Hutchison-Whampoa, a subsidiary of COSCO (The Chinese Overseas Shipping Corporation).
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b7fd07d0a70.htm (722 words)

	Timeline Of Railway History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The line proves the viabillity of rail transport, and large scale railway construction begins in Britain, and then spreads throughout the world.
		1835 In Belgium a railway was opened on May 5th between Brussels and Mechelen.
		It was the first railway in continental Europe.
	www.wikiverse.org /timeline-of-railway-history (629 words)

	Panama Canal Railway reborn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ownership of the railroad was transferred to the government of Panama in 1979, a stipulation of the Panama Canal Treaty.
		Ships passing through the Panama Canal are restricted to a width of no more than 105 or 106 feet — in order to navigate the 110-foot wide locks — and a maximum length of 965 feet.
		PCR’s five F40s are 1856, City of Panama (former Amtrak 259); 1857, City of Gamboa (Amtrak 313); 1858, City of Gatun (Amtrak 358), 1859, City of Paraiso (Amtrak 354), and 1860, City of Pedro Miguel (Amtrak 374).
	www.trains.com /Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/316yfxri.asp (1343 words)

	Panama Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN, "Passage to Panama: Past to Present"; "The Art of Being...
		In the first years of operation, after the concession was made and operating under the name of Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC), the railroad saw its growth...
		Hai Win found that the cost per container to use the railway line alone was estimated at between $2100 and $2500, compared with...
	panama-railway.wikiverse.org (803 words)

	Panama - Ground Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 Railway Company, a joint venture of Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products, to rebuild and operate the line.
	www.centralamerica.com /panama/tran/train.htm (176 words)

	RailWorks
		All materials for the Panama Canal Railway Reconstruction passed through the Colon Yard serving the Panama's Atlantic Ocean port.
		It was the second time in nearly 150 years that the 47-mile railway across Panama had been rebuilt.
		Panama is a narrow, S-shaped piece of land, much of which is lake and jungle.
	www.railworks.com /panama_profile.html (649 words)

	Panama Railway Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	No. 403: Digging Through Panama
		To begin with, Panama twists so the Atlantic side is northwest of the Pacific side.
		The idea of a canal across Panama had been around for centuries in 1879.
		Panama was another cup of tea: fifty miles of swamp, rock, clay, forest, fault lines, and rivers.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi403.htm (501 words)

	Explore Panama and Central America with a great team. Ecocircuitos specializes in educational and cultural tours, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ecocircuitos specializes in educational and cultural tours, Panama beaches and islands tours, Panama rainforest birding and hiking tours.
		Visit Panama’s stunning beaches on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and meet the Embera tribe at their village on the Chagres River in the Panama Canal Watershed.
		Survival in Panama’s Pearl Islands is an unforgettable experience at the Hacienda del Mar Resort on San Jose.
	www.ecocircuitos.com (336 words)

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