Panoramic photograph of Panama Canal excavation cut with railway tracks – Antique Photo Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Panoramic photograph of Panama Canal excavation cut with railway tracks. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Panoramic photograph of Panama Canal excavation cut with railway tracks
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Few views show the scale of the Culebra Cut as plainly as this panorama, where rail lines run along the floor of an excavation slicing through the Continental Divide. Trains hauled earth and rock out of the cut, and the work was a central part of the canal project that Theodore Roosevelt championed during his presidency. Roosevelt visited the Isthmus of Panama in November 1906, the first sitting U.S. president to travel abroad while in office. Look closely at the steep banks and the tiny figures on the tracks to gauge how much ground was moved.
| Original scan | 5,400 × 963 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | PANAMA 1913 Construction of Panama Canal |
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