My 7 day circuit in Panama - Day 3 (morning) - On the Panama Canal Railway Company train from Panama city to Colon - The 24th of April 2018

 

We boarded a transisthmian train from the Panama City Railway Company decorated as it used to during the California Gold rush.

 

 

It runs parallel to the Panama amd stretches 76.6 kilometres across the Isthmus of Panama linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean from Balboa to Colon and its initial incentive is said to have to do with the vast increase of traffic during the Gold rush.

 

 

The passenger service train ride, mainly used for tourist excursion purposes like ours took approximately one hour through the lush jungle along the Lake Gatun. The rather comfortable second-level viewing car we were sat at would have allowed a number of beautiful pictures to be taken had its mirrors been clean enough. Reaching for a specific outdoor-viewing car proved to be fairly unsuccessful as far as photographing is concerned, because it was already overcrowded by the time I got there despite the fact that I still managed to take some landscape photos to add to the ones I had taken to the prison quarters where Manuel Noriega was detained from inside the train. Feeling still feverish and having no intention of further standing in the outdoor part of the train without being able to easily use the camera I  soon returned to the car. 

 

 

Upon reaching Colon train station we were told that we wouldn't be visiting the city for security reasons and would soon head to the Água Clara locks.