Those steam shovels were built thousands of miles north of Panama at the city of South Milwaukee's Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company. “Bucyrus manufactured the steam shovels in South ...
Ken McCrary, 73, and Ed Kimball, 19, are the museum’s steam shovel instructors. It takes two instructors because it takes at least two people to operate the 1932 Bucyrus-Erie 50-B steamer.