The Panama Canal is known mostly as the world's premier man made inter oceanic transit waterway, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Lesser known, and recognized are the men who built (1904 - 1914) and maintain this one of the…
Recent photos of its guarded entrance shows a sign which reads, "Welcome To The Dredging Division". In the foreground, the viewer's eyes are drawn to the railroad crossing, the gate and the guardhouse that controlled entry to this industrial complex…
As I turn the clock back in time.... The year is 1947, when my dad, who was working at the Dredging Division on one of the tugboats, suffered a serious accident that severed his right leg, resulting in him being…
I must have been somewhere between six and eight years of age when my dad took us walking to the Gamboa train station. I believe there were only four of us siblings at the time ( We are a family…