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One of the steam-powered shovels used to dig and load dirt and rocks used to create the embankment being constructed to support the altered route of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Bristol (1910-1911). Small work steam engines pulled the cars where they were unloaded to create the embankment.

circa 1910-1911

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