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 ...

Urban Spelunking Urban spelunking: Bucyrus-Erie Club Although Bucyrus sold the building that it long used as a club and cafeteria for employees in 1994, many in South Milwaukee continued to refer to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sometimes the seasons move swiftly. Sometimes there comes an hour when men say “Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring.” Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business fortnight ago ...

ROLLAG, Minn. - Clad in overalls and baseball caps with Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion buttons, the Aakre family carries on a 60-year family tradition. Since the reunion started in 1954, ...

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 ...

After four and a half years, the new Bucyrus Museum opened to the public on August 3, 2021. Since the abrupt closure of the Bucyrus Heritage Museum in 2016, the South Milwaukee Industrial Museum LLC ...

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 ...