Chapter XIV: Steam Shovel at Work in the Culebra Cut

This beast, as they say down there, "can pick up anything from an elephant to a red-bug"--the smallest thing on the Isthmus. They also say the shovel "would look just like Teddy if it only had glasses." It does the work of digging the Canal and filling the trains, and does it amazingly--under the amazing direction of its amazing crews.