fate when the area was flooded on the fifteenth of august nine hundred fourteen the panama canal opened to traffic and. the the while the shipping route flourished from the outset the railway was in the red nationalizing it in one nine hundred seventy seven made no difference either. the railway line once celebrated as the first into oceanic connection on the isthmus decayed for decades it was rescued by a private company that has been operating the service since the year two thousand on new tracks through the canal zone. our guide bento is a member of the khulna an indigenous tribe who live on the san blas islands off the coast of panama the train used to be cheap and he remembers the people especially