Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . otives dwarf-ed by the pon-derous wallsbetwixt which they plied, and whole trains of loadeddump cars swallowed up in a singlelock chamber, one got some idea ofthe magnitude of the work. A trackfor a travelling crane extended downthe center of the chamber and themonster rumbled back and forth car-rying loads of material to their ap-pointed destinations. Across thewhole width of the Canal below thelocks stretched cable carriers upheldby skeleton devices of steel mountedon rails so that the pair of them,though separated by 500 feet ofspace, spanned b
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . otives dwarf-ed by the pon-derous wallsbetwixt which they plied, and whole trains of loadeddump cars swallowed up in a singlelock chamber, one got some idea ofthe magnitude of the work. A trackfor a travelling crane extended downthe center of the chamber and themonster rumbled back and forth car-rying loads of material to their ap-pointed destinations. Across thewhole width of the Canal below thelocks stretched cable carriers upheldby skeleton devices of steel mountedon rails so that the pair of them,though separated by 500 feet ofspace, spanned by the sagging cables,could be moved in unison. Out onthe swinging cables ran the loadedcars or buckets, filled with concrete and dumped witha crash and a roar at the chosen place. Giant mixersground up rock from Porto Bello, sand from Nombrede Dios, and cement from divers states of our unioninto a sort of Brobdignagian porridge with which thehungry maws of the moulds were ceaselessly fed. Menwig-wagged signals with flags across gaping WALL OF GATUN LOCK SHOWING ARCHED CONSTRUCTION THE COLOSSAL CONCRETE WORK AT GATUN 183
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