Panama Station: Third Station (1913-1960)

Panama Station, third building: this building, the biggest building of the whole railroad was designed by the railroad architect Homer E. Bartlett and built between April 1912 and August 1913, being fully operational on March 1st, 1914. The building is in neoclassic architecture with two stories that when opened had a waiting room for first class, another for second class, ticket office, carriage entrance, baggage and mail room, and the station master quarters.

It had roofed ramps for the passenger to go directly from the waiting rooms to the boarding platform. The building is located at the end of Avenue B, sideways to 5th of May Plaza, just south to where the previous station was located. The building was used as railroad station until October the 28th, 1960, when the Remon – Eisenhower treaty became in effect changing the limits of the railroad now inside the Canal Zone. At this time, the Pacific terminal was moved to the Ancon station.

When the building was turned to the Panamanian government, it was used by the Red Cross to setup a vaccination room and a community dormitory. In 1976 the Panamanian Man Museum was established in the building, after that the museum was renamed to the Reina Torres de Araúz Anthropological Museum. In the year 2022 a 14.2-million-dollar renovation program started for the building but as of 2022 the works are halted.