Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC) is the first Transcontinental railway in America. On January 28, 1855, a train ran from the Atlantic Ocean all the way across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean for the first time. The Panama railroad was in business.
Here is actual logo of the company:
Panama Canal Railway is offering port to port transshipment with fluid connectivity between the Atlantic and Pacific ports. Panama is the only place in America where containers can be shipped in-bond from the Atlantic to Pacific in less than 4 hours.
The entire PCRC concession area is considered by law to be one contiguous in-bond railway corridor, where cargo can be transshipped from coast to coast duty free.
Today, the Panama Canal Railway operates a 47-mile single track mainline from Colòn (Atlantic Coast) to Port of Balboa, near Panama City (Pacific Coast).
PCRC offers daily passenger train service between Panama City and Colòn, from Monday thru Friday. Train leaves Panama at 7:15 AM and returns at 6:15 PM. (1-hour travel each way).
Panama Canal Railway passenger train approching Gamboa bridge.
PCRC bought 10 second-hand F40 locomotives from Amtrak, numbered 1856 to 1865. They generally operates freight and passenger trains in pair of two units. Here is PCRC # 1862 sitting in the Pacific Intermondal Terminal, near Panama City.
PCRC can operate continiously between the Atlantic and Pacific intermodal terminals with a capacity of 10 trains per day each direction. The handling capacity of the railway is estimated around 500,000 container moves a year.
PCRC operates double-stack rail cars, each set accommodating an average of 75 containers. Here is a container train ready to leave Pacific Intermondal Terminal.
To learn more about Panama Canal Railway, please visit the website http://www.panarail.com/
