The Panama Railroad was meant to revolutionize travel, offering a faster route to the California Gold Rush, but its construction came at a devastating human cost. Disease, treacherous terrain, and ...

when workers from China arrived to build the Panama Railway and later the canal. For over six decades, they shed sweat and blood – and thousands paid with their lives – to build the projects ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

China's BRI project has remained under criticism in recent times, as it is dubbed a 'debt trap' with many countries ...

In the 1850s, as speculators and fortune-hunters travelled from the East Coast of the US to California for the Gold Rush, Wall Street investors constructed a railway across the Isthmus of Panama, then ...

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) Panama's government has unveiled plans for a major railway project connecting David to the Costa Rican border. President José Raúl Mulino and the National Railway ...

In our news wrap Monday, crews started recovering several parts of the passenger jet that collided mid-air with a military helicopter, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Norfolk Southern for ...

The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama ... followed by a highly successful railroad. A nearly 20-year attempt by the French to build a canal failed after tens of thousands died ...

They are usually equipped with outboard motors and life jackets. Panama has only one passenger rail line - the Panama Canal Railway. The route offers an excellent way to see the canal and surrounding ...

Frederick Mears worked as an engineer on the construction of the Panama Canal. His work there caught the eye of President Woodrow Wilson, who had plans for a new railroad for the Alaska territory.