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Article: PANAMA CANAL RAILWAY RIDES AGAIN.(Brief Article)
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Service on the newly reborn Panama Canal Railway was to be inaugurated June 18, with luxury trains whisking passengers in style between Panama City and Colon, along a 47-mile track that roughly parallels the Panama Canal, reports our correspondent Larry Luxner (Email: larry@luxner.com):
That's only the beginning. David L. Starling, president of the Panama Canal Railway Co., said that freight service between the Atlantic port of Balboa and the Pacific port of Manzanillo should begin by late July;
The railway is a three-way venture led by Kansas City Southern Railway and Chicago-based Mi-Jack Products, a manufacturer of intermodal cranes and ...