Before revision: A decision to make the internal railways of Afghanistan gauge potentially opens up a new standard gauge route to China, since China abuts this country.Railway Gazette International | month=October | year=2010 | page=63 (with map) Central America (inter-oceanic lines) Panama (South America) The first railroad to directly connect two oceans (although not by crossing a broad "continental" land massOtis, F.N.,"Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad" (Harper Bros., New York, 1861), p. 12) was the Panama Rail Road.
After revision: A decision to make the internal railways of Afghanistan gauge potentially opens up a new standard gauge route to China, since China abuts this country.Railway Gazette International | month=October | year=2010 | page=63 (with map)  Bros., New York, 1861), p. 12) was the Panama Rail Road.