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Aspinwall (Colon):The train starting for Panama - 1857

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View of the Chagres River at the time the French arrived. The Panama Railroad is in the foreground; the village of Gatun is across the river.

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Culebra Station - 1911

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Front Street Colon

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Atlantic Terminal Office Building,
Cristobal Colon.

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Atlantic Terminal Office Building,
Cristobal Colon.

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Bridge across the Chagres River at Barbacoas during the dry season
Totten completed the Barbacoas bridge during the last week of Nevember 1853. The bridge was of boiler iron, 625 feet long, 18 feet wide, standing 47 feet above the normal stage of the river. The ends rested on abutments of hewn masonry, 26 feet wide and 8 feet thick. Between the two abutments stretched six iron spans each more than 100 feet long. The spans rested on five masonty piers, 26 feet long by eight feet wide, firmly implanted on the river bottom. Each span had two top and bottom cords - the top cords arching upward slightly - of iron two feet wide and one inch thich. These cords were joined together with an iron web nine feet high a the center of the span and seven feet high at the ends. The tracks rode on iron floor girders, three feet apart.

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Bridge across the Chagres River at Gamboa

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The old Washington Hotel, Colon.

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The new Washington Hotel, Colon.

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Christ Church by the sea, Colon, built by the Panama Railroad in 1865

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New Panama Railroad Station, Panama City.