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DescriptionPanama RR opens JAN 28 1855.jpg |
English: Newspaper account of the opening of the en:Panama Railroad, January 28, 1855.
TranscriptionA Great Enterprise. That great enterprise, the inter-oceanic or Panama Railroad across the Isthmus, is completed, and the rough Atlantic is now wedded, with an iron band, to the fair Pacific. The connection thus established, between these mighty waters, carries the mind back to the time when—
What a long stride forward has the world taken since that time! The silent sea then gazed upon by Cortes, is now white with the commerce of all nations ; upon its shores a great people have established their government and free institutions, and the islands dotted so thickly upon its bosom, have become the home of civilized and Christianized man. The first train went over the road from Aspinwall, to Panama on the 28th of January. Its arrival at Panama was viewed with as much surprise by the native population, as Cortez exhibited on beholding the Pacific for the first time. One of the Panama papers says— The transit trip can now be made daily, in from five to six hours, and but a short time will probably elapse before trains will run regularly in four hours. |
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Source | The Portland Transcript [Newspaper] (The Cooper Collections) |
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- 2008-06-05 19:15 Centpacrr 332×948×??? (148290 bytes) Newspaper account of the opening of the Panama Railroad, January 28, 1855, from The Portland (Maine) Transcript [Newspaper], February 17, 1855. (The Cooper Collections)
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