Can you move a person or cargo by rail from the southern US border to Colombia? In other words, is there an intercontinental connection by railroad?
This is not a practical question of a rail trip I want to take. I just want to know if it’s possible. I learned several reasons why this trip would be slower, probably more expensive, and downright dangerous on the Colombian end.
I frittered away half an hour using various search terms, and I couldn’t get it to cough up an answer.
Nope, all roads, it seems, end in Panama. There’s a 100 mile wide strip of jungle on the isthmus called the Darien Gap that’s apparently completely undeveloped and has no roads or rail going through it.
Get yourself down to you local bookstore or library and get a copy of Paul Theroux’s “The Old Patagonian Express”. It’s about a railway trip he made from New England to as close to the southern tip of South America as possible. (Except, of course, for that little gap in Darien.) Evidently you can go way beyond Columbia.