Patent American steam pile-driving engine, 1844. Workers operating 'Cram's Patent Steam Pile Driver', a machine used in the construction of railways in the United States. 'As a considerable length of this line passes through a deep swamp, a foundation of great permanency was were adopted as the cheapest and most efficacious means to secure a durable and substantial men employed in operating this machine on the Utica and Syracuse Railway, were a foreman, a steam-engineer, two brakemen, and two men in front at the saws; also a horse and cart to furnish water for the
Patent American steam pile-driving engine, 1844. Workers operating 'Cram's Patent Steam Pile Driver', a machine used in the construction of railways in the United States. 'As a considerable length of this line passes through a deep swamp, a foundation of great permanency was were adopted as the cheapest and most efficacious means to secure a durable and substantial men employed in operating this machine on the Utica and Syracuse Railway, were a foreman, a steam-engineer, two brakemen, and two men in front at the saws; also a horse and cart to furnish water for the machine was manufactured in the United States, complete, at the cost of 2000 dollars'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.
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