Buchveröffentlichungen
Correa Restrepo, Juan Santiago: The Panama Railroad Company o cómo Colombia perdió una nación, Bogotá: CESA . 2012 – 170 p. : il., mapas ; 24 cm , ISBN 978-958-8722-17-7
Die Eisenbahn zwischen den Häfen von Panama und Colón war die erste transkontinentale Eisenbahn beider Amerikas. Später bekam sie Konkurrenz durch den Kanal. Mit ihrem Bau verlor Kolumbien die Territorialansprüche auf diese Region. Nach einer Einführung zur Region beschreibt das Buch den Bau der Bahn und anschliessend auch ihren Betrieb in den ersten Jahren. Illustriert werden die Fakten durch verschiedene Statistiken, eine einfache Karte und verschiedene alte schwarz/weiss Bilder. (R).
Ravasio, Paola: This Train Is Not Bound for Glory. A Study on Literary Trainscapes, S.l.: University of New Orleans Press . 2021 – 114 , ISBN 978-1-60801-216-9
This book explores how spatial displacement correlates to social immobility narratologically by carrying out a hermeneutic of literary trainscapes. Understood as the arrangement of the social and the mobile in the literary representation of movement of people and goods by the railway system across inter-American economies, the book focuses on narratives based at the Panama Canal Zone, across the Central American banana republics, and on the human caravan traversing Mexico towards the U.S. border upon La Bestia.
Small, Charles S: Military railroads on the Panama Canal zone, Railroad Monographs . 1982 – 64 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
History of the US military railroads in the Panama Canal Zone. Also covers the various forts (Randolph, Delesseps, Sherman, Grant, and Amador), and the 1920 railway guns. Illustrated throughout with numerous maps (xerox quality) and black and white photos. With roster of rolling stock and bibliography.
Small, Charles S.: Rails to the Diggings. Construction Railroads of the Panama Canal (Railroad Monographs) . 1981 – 223 p. : 200 illustrations, 32 track charts, maps and plans., index
Charles S. Small, a professional engineer, having a lifelong interest in steam railroading and whose work has carried him to the capitols and hinterlands around the world, has written extensively about the interesting lines encountered during his work and travels.With the disappearance of almost all of these fascinating relics of a bygone age he has now devoted his efforts toward the history of unusual railroads. .In this book, with 200 illustrations, he reveals a line which carried fantastic tonnages on four gauges whose origin was a streak of rust spawned by the California gold rush.Rather than use a million words the story unfolds, under two flags, by a series of photographs, reproduced full size from the original negatives. Most of the photographs came from the camera of Ernest Hallen who devoted his entire career to photographing the Panama Canal. Supplemented by 32 maps and drawings the result is a unique documentary of the key role steam railroading played in the world’s largest single construction effort.
Aufsätze
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