Bucyrus-Erie 120-B removes overburden for coal for contractor A.E. Dick Construction in Pennsylvania In the 1920s, quarries and hard-rock mines were expanding their use of shovels to load haulage ...

Those steam shovels were built thousands of miles north of Panama at the city of South Milwaukee's Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company.

It's not as easy as it looks. The Roots of Motive Power Museum puts you in the driver's seat of a classic steam machine.

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

Similar to steam shovels, Bucyrus of South Milwaukee, Wis., had also achieved considerable success with steam excavators, but had only a small share of the market for small machines such as the Erie A ...

Dan Martin works to rig a Bucyrus Model 50-B steam shovel bucket to a truck for transport Tuesday at the Nederland Mining Museum.

When hooked up to the rest of the Bucyrus steam shovel, the scoop can still gnaw into tons of earth and rock like it did along the canal for decades. It was one of 24 such steam shovels sent from ...

The shovel–that he described as having a platform as big as a football field, with tracks 8-feet high, and diesel engines in each track–was the Bucyrus-Erie Company’s Big Hog.

The 50-year old rail system in Panama proved incapable of getting the job done. On November 12, 1904, the first Bucyrus steam shovel arrived in Colón, able to excavate five cubic yards of spoil ...

The steam shovel is a Bucyrus-Erie B-3, a coal-fired, steam-driven excavator built by Bucyrus International, Inc., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company specialized in production of material removal ...

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