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0982973 - 1998
PANAMA Panama City -- Homeless man walks past his neighbours who live among these abandoned railway cars on the trans-Isthmian railway in Panama City. Joaquim Sanchez has lived in these carriges for four years and like many Panamanians below the poverty line, collects aluminium cans and waste paper to survive, one pound of paper selling for US$0.10 to recyclers. Handed-over to Panama in the 1970s, the state-run railway fell into disrepair. In 1997, US company Kansas City Southern Rail won the concession to privately operate the famous railway, which was built at a great cost to human life in the 1850s. The revamp is planned to re-open the railway by mid-2000, which will compete with the canal and trucks as a means of ferrying cargo over the Isthmus of Panama -- 27/05/1998 -- Photo © Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos
©2006 TopFoto / Jon Mitchell
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