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What is the Panama shortcut?
For many forty-niners, the Panama shortcut was irresistible. It cut 8,000 miles and months of travel off the sea voyage around Cape Horn, at the tip of South America. And a trip through the jungles of Panama, with their brightly-colored birds and flowers, seemed like an exotic adventure.
How did people travel to the Australian gold rush?
1850s Transport. It is difficult to imagine life before cars, trucks, motorbikes and aeroplanes. Those who came to Australia during the gold rush however, travelled here, explored the place, and moved huge quantities of cargo long before the car, truck, motorbike and aeroplane were invented.
How did people transport in the 1850?
Transportation in the 1850’s was a revolution. People were able to travel city to city in the space of an afternoon with the coming of the railroads. Communication between cities and towns was also available instantly due to the telegraph. Trains, not horses, were being used for long distance travel.
What happened to Southern Pacific Railroad?
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and merged with their Union Pacific Railroad.
How did people travel to the Goldfields?
Once the fortune-seeking travellers from around the world arrived by ship, they had long and difficult journeys ahead of them to the goldfields. Supplies were pulled on wagons called drays by cattle called bullocks and smaller, lighter horse-drawn coaches or carriages carried the mail and people who had the money for a ticket.
What did horses do in the Goldfields?
Horses were incredibly useful on the goldfields for both transport and work. Apart from being used to move people and cargo, they could also be attached to whims, Chilean mills and puddling machines to extract gold from mud, clay and rock.
What kind of Transport did people use in the 1850s?
1850s Transport. It is difficult to imagine life before cars, trucks, motorbikes and aeroplanes. Those who came to Australia during the gold rush however, travelled here, explored the place, and moved huge quantities of cargo long before the car, truck, motorbike and aeroplane were invented.
Is there a road from Ballarat to diggings?
While there is no actual road to the diggings of Ballarat, there is already a well-worn path that takes Mr Y past beautiful eucalypt forests, the likes of which he has never seen before.