Much of the equipment, such as the steam shovels, used to build the Panama Canal were built in South Milwaukee. Trump made comments about retaking the Panama Canal during his 2025 inauguration, also ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1960, the Bucyrus-Erie Company of ...

Now that the state has sold the 44-acre site of the Idaho Transportation Department headquarters on State Street, what will become of the old steam shovel that’s housed there now? Scott ...

The cable-operated excavator is the earliest documented self-powered machine ever used to move earth. Its earliest form, the steam shovel, has roots going back to the very first mechanical excavator, ...

Walter Bennett’s Bucyrus-Monighan 10W steam shovel model was recently donated to Penn State Wilkes-Barre. The miniature Bucyrus-Monighan 10W is used in a simulated 12 foot by 13 foot strip mine and ...

News last week that the state has sold the old Idaho Transportation Department headquarters property on State Street to developers brought up a question among some of us in the newsroom. What’s going ...