Tuesday 2 February 2016

Workers cast concrete arms and reflectors for lampposts at the construction site of the Gatun Locks between the Atlantic and the Pacific


President Theodore Roosevelt operating a steam shovel at Culebra Cut, Panama Canal - the U.S. were rewarded with the rights to the canal in 1903


The S.S. Kronland crossed through the Panama in 1915, pulled by the U.S. Gaton tug boat. The canal now passes around 15,000 ships a year


Huge queues watch as children ride in colourful cars round a track flanked with a giant rocket in 1955


Characters dance in the Disneyland Parade done as a preview for television, on the first day of operation in July 1955


123 years old one stretch of the Mount Lowe Railway is 5,606ft high- so passengers probably spent their time hoping that it didn't break down


The Mount Lowe Railway, which now stands in ruins in Los Angeles, California, was the third in a series of scenic mountain railways built in America to boost tourism in the area


Opening in 1893, the line became the first electric railroad ever built in the United States - but closed down for good 45 years later


The service stretched across seven miles, starting in Altadena, at a station named Mountain Junction, and travelling along Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain


Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street, Manhattan. 1935