Which railroad is considered to be the oldest transcontinental railroad in the world?

I would take a stab at it being in India but whatever the name of it is I would not have a clue

Would it be CPR (Canadian Pacific Railroad)?

Sorry guys, not India or CPR.

What about Australia's Indian/Pacific?

Would it be the US Railroad Line also called the Pacific Railroad which opened in May 1869?.

It could be either the US or Panama.

Ernie. You are the man. It was the railroad built by the US in Panama, prior to the
digging of the canal, and it still exists. It is the shortest transcontinental railway, that's
for sure, but still one that crosses the American continents.


http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/ships2/id16.html

Read the last paragraph. How many seamen do you know who necessarily used this
railway to rejoin his ship at the other end?

I travelled that railroad along with two mates having stay'ed to long in the bar at Cristobal while on the PSNC boat Cienfuegos, it cost us the fare and the usual - day and a day.