Henry, in his novel 'Cabbages and Kings'. ... It's funny and it's the fact that all Central America governments, one time or another, wanted to build ocean-to-ocean railroad, taking advantage of the narrow territories of the continent. ... The fact that to this date, although there are over 900 miles of railroad in Honduras, all are within the rich bananas lands of the North Coast. ... United paid all the debt of IRC, stop building the Pacific port in exchange for free operation on IRC's tracks, which was very beneficial for the company to ship bananas to the U.S in t...

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