The 1856 Panama Railroad accident was a derailment at the Panama Railroad of an express train with around 900 passengers near the Gatun's Bridge, nine...

points under it. 6 May – Panama – 1856 Panama Railroad accident- A train with over 500 passengers derailed near Aspinwall in Panama. Thirty to forty people...

of the United States was to take a steamer from New York to Panama, take the Panama Railroad across the isthmus, and then take another steamer to San Francisco...

the cargo at the Isthmus of Panama, where it was sent across via paddle steamer and the Panama Railroad. The Panama Railroad gauge was 5 feet (1,524 mm)...

District are printed in bright "Panama orange" to reflect the line's origins with the Illinois Central Railroad (IC) and its Panama Limited passenger train....

The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal...

At 102". Honolulu Civil Beat. Retrieved June 24, 2024. Lloyd, James T. (1856). Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters. Cincinnati...

by moving it overland across the Isthmus of Panama. In 1881, Park sold his stock in the Panama railroad for $7 million (over $200 million in 2022). Active...

Southern California's first railroad, the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad which he sold to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1873. Banning spent the 1870s...

events related to rail transport that occurred in 1856. January – Opening throughout of first railroad in Africa and the Middle East, from Alexandria to...

Coast, went by steamship to Panama, where mule trains and canoes provided transportation across the isthmus. (The Panama Railroad was soon built to provide...

Commissioner on Panama Traffic and Tolls reported the Southern Pacific's "Sunset—Gulf Route" enabled the line to be the only railroad to control a route...

side from Panama to San Francisco. A business collaboration between Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt was spurred by a disabled ship. By accident, the two...

California, and opened ship depots at Panama City and Benicia, California. Aspinwall invested in the Panama Railroad Company, which would replace old wagon...

via the Panama route on paddle steamers, mule trains and canoes and later the Panama Railroad across Panama. After 1855 when the Panama Railroad was completed...

A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks...

Panama. She was chartered by the Panama Railway Company. Her cargo was bound for California, taking advantage of the newly completed Panama Railroad to...

join Frémont in California. After disembarking and crossing the Isthmus of Panama, they boarded another vessel to San Francisco. With income from their gold...

From California we have intelligence to January 16. The railroad across the Isthmus of Panama is completed, and trains passed.. for the first time on...

countries that later switched from LHT to RHT include Argentina, Chile, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Suriname, along with neighbouring Guyana, are the...

whether or not the Chinese railroad workers were exploited by the railroad, with whites in better positions. He finds the railroad set different wage rates...

when a minister was forced to resign (José Manuel Soria, affected by the Panama Papers scandal) or was promoted to another position (Ana Pastor, who became...

Carolina Railroad and justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court Orville Clark 182? – President of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and...

of murder and robbery, were simultaneously hanged by a lynch mob from a railroad tie suspended from two adjacent trees. The second lynching occurred on...

displaced 32,000 tons fully loaded. In comparison, SS Persia, launched in 1856, was 119 m (390 ft 5 in) long with a 14 m (45 ft 11 in) beam. She was at...

in California. After 1850 the Panama Railroad (completed 1855) was already working its way across the Isthmus of Panama, making it ever easier to get...

with $24 (equivalent to $814 in 2023) to their name. David worked as a railroad mechanic and then at a creamery. By 1898, the parents made a decent living...

supported Panama in its movement for independence and made an agreement with the new country to build the Panama Canal. In addition to the Panama Canal Zone...

across the Isthmus of Panama, particularly after 1855 when the paddle steamer shipping lines and the Panama Railroad across Panama cut the return trip to...

of the Nineteenth Century, from the building of the London sewers to the Panama Canal. Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-716307-6. OCLC 57710987. Haw, Richard (2005)...