Just curious if anyone has taken the Panama Canal RR (built in 1855) as an alternative to the Canal trip. It is interesting that with the canal, there still is a railway. I’m not sure if it’s sole purpose is to carry freight from ocean to ocean for ships that are too big.
Have a look at this page…
http://www.panarail.com/en/index.html
I will be in Panama this winter and hope to ride.
They look like they’ve been taken over by KCS.
well, sort of. KCS owns signfigant part of the PCR, I have seen a couple of the f40s traveling though Deramus yard on none other than the kCS. But they have a couple of pass. trains in matching paint.
Thanks, I did some research on this RR since posting. It carried lots of gold diggers (the real ones, not your wife or girlfriend :-).) Also, carried some regiments of US troops. About 6,000 died in construction due to tropical diseases, even though it was less than 50 miles long.
When the Canal was build in 1905? the line had to be relocated just a tad, but was and is still used as one of your links shows.