. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d tor the Far East (Overseas Limited. C, P. R.). Engulfing A. Do It That Way? Eyes Are Odd. 370,Wrong. To Right a Heinous. 158. Yard Clerk, Hardworked, 146. R£%::Eii$ine(riiii Vol. XIX. Copyright by Angui Sinclair Co.—J905 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock 136 Liberty Street, New York. January. 1906 No. I Work on the Panama Canal. would have involved the dredging of a These had been filled with water for The shortest route for the ca
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d tor the Far East (Overseas Limited. C, P. R.). Engulfing A. Do It That Way? Eyes Are Odd. 370,Wrong. To Right a Heinous. 158. Yard Clerk, Hardworked, 146. R£%::Eii$ine(riiii Vol. XIX. Copyright by Angui Sinclair Co.—J905 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock 136 Liberty Street, New York. January. 1906 No. I Work on the Panama Canal. would have involved the dredging of a These had been filled with water for The shortest route for the canal would lake no ft. above sea level. twenty years, and as they were only have been across the Isthmus of Darien, The Panama route is 46 miles dug 28 ft. deep, they will require drcdg- using a portion of the San Bias river. from shore to shore, and as the ing to make them deep enough for mod- This would have connected the oceans French company had excavated about cm requirements. by a about 30 miles long. To nuc-fiftb of the rannl, and for other When the I^lbniian Cana! ■iiimission. CUT, TilK LARGEST LXCAVATION ON THE ROITE OF THE PANAMA CANAL. do this, however, a mountain and about S miles through wouldhave to have been tunneled, in a waysuitable for the passage of modernsteamships. Such a tunnel driven throughprobably shaly or volcanic materialwould require lining, and this, and thefact that the ship canal would have been150 ft. above tidewater made a longerbut surer way the one chosen. TheNicaraguan route is 137 miles long, and reasons, it was decided upon bythe United States Government. Therights of the French company were pur-chased for $40,000,000, and the work un-dertaken by the Isthmian Canal Commis-sion. At the time of this purchase asea level canal on the Atlantic side ex-tending from the city of Panama toBohio. a distance of 16 miles, was in ex-istence. On the Pacific side there was a5 mile canal from La Boca to Miraflores. took
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