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Description
The Panama Railroad ordered this steam engine from the Portland Company in 1865.
When the Panama Railroad was started, the Portland Company furnished the entire equipment except passenger cars. The original freight cars were built almost entirely of iron and were probably the first all-iron cars ever constructed in the United States.
About This Item
- Title: Panama Railroad's engine 'Colon', 1865
- Creation Date: 1865
- Subject Date: 1865
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Albumen print
- Dimensions: 28 cm x 36 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, OS Photographs Box 4; MS00-67.0136
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Colon (Locomotive)--Photographs
- Panama Railroad--Photographs
- Railroad locomotive industry--Maine--Portland
- Railroad locomotives--Maine--Photographs
- Railroad locomotives--Panama--Photographs
- Railroads--Panama--Photographs
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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