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Steam Operated Shovel

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This machine helped build the Panama Canal, worked in Hawaii, and dug sections of Davidson Ditch, the Alaskan "Water Pipeline." Davidson Ditch brought water from Chatanika to float and operate the huge hydraulic gold dredges in the interior of Alaska.
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