Gamboa Station

Gamboa Passenger station: the town of Gamboa almost start its existence with the Panama Canal construction and the relocation of the Panama Railroad between 1907 and 1913. Due to its location where the Chagres River meets the north end of the Culebra (Gaillard) cut and provides water to the Gaun Lake, Gamboa becomes a strategic place. The first passenger station was built between 1913 and 1914 to help workers get to the site. The town is west to where Gorgona was, part of the original route of the railroad.

Gorgona became submerged when the Gatun Lake was created. After the construction year passed, Gamboa became an industrial town, increasing its population and the number of people using the railroad which led to build a new and bigger station between 1940 and 1941. By the 1960s, in Gamboa was only left the dredging division of the Panama Canal, the once booming gravel machinery and pit was no longer needed, the dynamite storage did not require large movements and the population decreased considerably causing the Panama railroad Division to then leave a small station with 4 to 6 waiting seats and small shed that existed until the railroad ceased operations in 1996.

Today Gamboa does not have a railroad station because the passenger service only operates between the terminals (Panama – Colon).