Panoramic photograph of Culebra Cut excavation with railway tracks – Vintage Photo Print
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Step back in time with Panoramic photograph of Culebra Cut excavation with railway tracks, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Panoramic photograph of Culebra Cut excavation with railway tracks
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Rail tracks run along the floor of the Culebra Cut, the deep trench blasted through the Continental Divide in Panama, in this wide view of the excavation. The cut was the hardest stretch of the Panama Canal, and it was dug under the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, who championed the canal and visited the isthmus in 1906 as the first sitting president to travel outside the country. Steam shovels and dump trains hauled spoil out of the gorge, and the work claimed many lives to disease and landslides before the canal opened in 1914. The cut was renamed the Gaillard Cut in 1913 after the engineer who led it.
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,371 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | PANAMA 1913 Culebra Cut Gold Hill |
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