Eager to join the California Gold Rush, you choose the 40-day steamship route through Panama over the grueling overland journey. But Panama's jungles, lethal diseases, and treacherous terrain await.

The Panama Railroad was meant to revolutionize travel, offering a faster route to the California Gold Rush, but its construction came at a devastating human cost. Disease, treacherous terrain ...

His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad. Some 50 miles in length, the canal would be less than half as long as the Suez. De Lesseps estimated that the ...

Construction of the Panama-David-Border train will begin in January 2026, the Presidency of the Republic announced Thursday.

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The Shackleford Sub-Committee of the House Inter-State Committee, which has returned from New York, where it made inquiry into the affairs of the Panama Railroad Company, obtained a copy of the ...

Panama has signed a loan agreement worth $US 1.1bn with Japan International Cooperation Agency to enable the completion of ...

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) The Mexican government plans to build a railway corridor to compete with the Panama Canal, challenging the dynamics of maritime shipping for freight transport and ...

His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad. Some 50 miles in length, the canal would be less than half as long as the Suez. De Lesseps estimated that the ...