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The Panama Railroad
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From Harper's Magazine, by special permission of the publishers.
PANAMA RAILROAD IN 1855.
from the contract. This was done, and they were retained as engineers of the company, which proceeded to build the road itself.
A later survey by Baldwin and Colonel Hughes, who had been detailed from the United States Topographical Corps, had located the Pacific terminus at Panama City, and the Atlantic end at Navy or Limon Bay, between the mouth of the Chagres and Porto Bello. On Manzanillo Island in this bay, some time in the month of May, 1850, Trautwine and Baldwin struck the first blow.
