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Panama Canal Resources: Railroads

Materials in the Collections

Examples of materials in the collection.

List of books and of articles in periodicals relating to interoceanic canal and railway routes : (Nicaragua; Panama, Darien, and the valley of the Atrato; Tehuantepec and Honduras; Suez Canal) by Hugh A. Morrison, Jr.
Call Number: LHL Rare Book Cage. Z881 .L5 1900
An extensive bibliography of pamphlets, journal articles, and books dealing with various potential routes for a canal across the Central American Isthmus plus a chapter on the Suez Canal.
Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal by William H. Burr
Call Number: TA15 .B8 Rare Book Cage
Publication Date: 1902
Rails across Panama: the story of the building of the Panama Railroad, 1849-1855. by Joseph L. Schott
Call Number: HE2830.P2 S3 1967
Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and... by Fessenden N. Otis
Call Number: F1562 .O87 1862 Rare Book Cage
Report of Joseph L. Bristow, special Panama railroad commissioner to the secretary of war June 24, 1905. Pub. by Office of administration Isthmian canal affairs. by Joseph L. Bristow
Call Number: HE2830.P2 A4 1905 Rare Book Cage
Publication Date: 1905
Fifty years at Panama, 1861-1911. 2nd ed. by Tracy Robinson
Call Number: F1563 .R6 1911 Rare Book Cage
Publication Date: 1911, c1907
Communication of the Board of Directors of the Panama Railroad Company to the stockholders : together with the report of the chief engineer to the directors, and an appendix, containing tables .... by Ohio Water Supply Board
Call Number: HE2830.P2 C5 1855 Rare Book Cage

Baldwin Locomotive

Web Sites

Panama Canal Railway Company
Includes sections on history, current schedules and information, and future plans.
Panama Canal Railroad: Panama Canal Museum
A timeline of the Panama Canal Railway era.