samuelhildebrand

Esta es la iglesia de santa Ana, hoy en dia la torre es diferente.

Easier than the navvies had it with their wheelbarrows.

Thanks for sharing this image. I looked it up as it is mentioned in a book called The Works of Man (1985), by author David W Clark, although he spelled it Ledgerwood with an e. The single quote marks are used within this excerpt as he wrote it, to quote his sources: EXCERPT from page 104: As work at the [Culebra] Cut progressed, 200 miles (320 kilometres) of railway line were laid down, tier above tier, to move the excavated soil. Scores of steam shovels and thousands of men were employed to keep the movement going and special equipment was designed and built to help them. There was, for instance, the Ledgerwood Unloader. 'Railway trucks provided with flaps were used, these flaps making a single platform of the whole train,' it has been written of the contraption. 'At the rear of the train was a plough which could be drawn by a wire road attached to a drum carrier on a special car in the forepart of the train. When the car arrived at the dumping ground the drum was started, and the plough, advancing from the rear, swept the 320 cubic yards of rock from the sixteen cars in seven minutes.' Progress was also helped by the 'track shifter', invented by one of the canal workers, which raised track and ties clear of the ground and laid them down up to nine feet away."

That fish would be a Pacific snook.