The steam shovel is a Bucyrus-Erie B-3, a coal-fired, steam-driven excavator built by Bucyrus International, Inc., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Many of the steam engines used in the Panama Canal shovels, pile drivers, dredges, and railroad wrecking cranes were built on the first floor. When the South Milwaukee Bucyrus plant expansion of 1919 ...

The historic steam shovel has been at that location on State Street in Boise for the past 10 years.