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While traveling, many steamships from the eastern seaboard required the passengers to bring kits, which were typically full of personal belongings such as clothes, guidebooks, tools, etc. In addition to personal belongings, Argonauts were required to bring barrels full of beef, biscuits, butter, pork, rice, salt. While on the steamships, travelers could talk to each other, smoke, fish, and other activities depending on the ship they traveled. Still, the dominant activity held throughout the steamships were gambling, which was ironic because segregation between wealth gaps was prominent throughout the ships. Everything was segregated between the rich vs. the poor. There were different levels of travel one could pay for to get to California. The cheaper steamships tended to have longer routes. In contrast, the more expensive would get you to California quicker. There were clear social and economic distinctions between those who traveled together, being that those who spent more money would receive accommodations which others weren't allowed. They would do this with the clear intent to distinguish their higher class power over those that couldn't afford those accommodations.

Although, in 1986, the railroad route that went through Panama was changed, and it inevitably altered through the Sierra Nevada mountains through tunnels, canyons, and precipices.