eighty-five-foot

Updated: May 28, 2025

Travelers by rail across the Isthmus, as no doubt many ships' passengers will be in the years to come while their steamer is being slowly raised and lowered to and from the eighty-five-foot lake, will see little of the canal, a glimpse of the Bas Obispo "cut" at Gamboa and little else from the time they leave Gatun till they return to the present line at Pedro Miguel station.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers