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keywords: panama, panama canal construction, heavy equipment, earth moving machines

Synopsis: Unedited footage of the construction of the Panama Canal with various scenes of heavy construction equipment used to connect the Atlantic Ocean via the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean...(read more)

  • Date: 1911
  • Duration: 00:10:49
  • Sound: No
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Panama

Panama Canal Construction

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Panama Canal Construction

Panning view of the ship canal looking from the Pacific Ocean side. Steam shovels at work loading rail cars with dirt and rock. Shows workers carrying boxes of dynamite for blasting. Shows a small dynamite blast. Rail car unloader at work. A rail mounted spreader leveling the dirt. Shows a railroad track shifter at work moving railroad tracks or rails. Shows concrete mixing plant and transportation of concrete in buckets from concrete mixing plant to locks, concrete buckets are dumped. Shows concrete mixing plant at Gatun, Panama. Shows concrete work at Pedro Miguel lock site. Construction work at Pedro Miguel lock, Panama Canal. Hundreds of workmen crowding onto cars of labor train at the Panama Canal construction site. Suction dredge in operation at the Atlantic opening of the Panama Canal.