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The steam, railway and river revolution, the route to Honda on foot, the tendency to link towns to rivers or the sea, Bogotá la Dorada, Antioquia, Cúcuta, Pacifico. Francisco Javier Cisneros, the father of railways in Colombia, and Alejandro Lopez Restrepo, proposed the first 3.7 km tunnel. He was almost declared crazy for this proposal. In 1852 its construction began in the country, it would replace the river tunnel established since 1825, by the Magdalena River that lasted 20 days from Honda to Barranquilla.