Engineering Difficulties

Several engineering difficulties took place during the Panama Canal's building process but many people and resources were available to help out. Machinery consisted of Bucyrus steam shovels and dynamite which both worked on the Culebra Cut excavation. The locks, located on both the Atlantic and Pacific ends, made voyages a lot simpler and were extremly safe. Also, the many dirt trains helped remove spoil from the mountains and sped up the constantly delaying schedule. Finally, three actual engineers each worked on the project themselves and their names were John F. Wallace, John F. Stevens, and George W. Goethals. They each progessed successfully, but the best of all was definetly Goethals, said by the workers, since he was the one who actually completed the work.