Classic route
Panama Canal Railway
Panama City → Colón · Panama
Panama Canal Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 77 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Top speed
- 88 km/h
- Operator
- Panama Canal Railway Co. (APM Terminals)
- Train
- F40 diesels & dome car
- Countries
- Panama
- In service since
- 1855
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s first transcontinental railroad (1855): an hour ocean-to-ocean beside the Canal locks, skimming causeways through Gatún Lake jungle.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2020587 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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