Trans-Isthmus Railway: third time a charm? : vimarsana.com

Narrow, windy, and flat, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was always a contender for the shortest, and fastest, transit route between the Atlantic and Pacific.  Going back to Hernan Cortés, dreamers and schemers considered the possibility of digging a canal.  Technically impossible until the 19th century (the Suez Canal is a few meters longer than the…

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