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 ...

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.

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 ...

By 1931, Bucyrus-Erie 120-B, 4-cubic-yard electric shovels were used at Jerome, replacing the old Marion 300, 8-cubic-yard, coal-fired steam shovel, and Osgood Model 120, 4-cubic-yard, railroad ...

Martin, a mining history buff who has lived in Nederland for 25 years, said he first spotted the steam shovel — a 75-ton, 1923 Bucyrus Model 50-B — outside of Rollinsville in 1998 sunken into ...

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

“Bucyrus manufactured the steam shovels in South Milwaukee, but some of our employees had to travel to Panama to service these shovels to keep them running under extremely difficult conditions ...

A steam shovel scoop once used along the Panama Canal brings a sense of massive proportion to an exhibition opening today at the Mint Museum Uptown focused on the engineering marvel that opened ...

It all began in 1884 as the Marion Steam Shovel Company under the direction of a group of Marion businessmen and ... and diesel engines in each track–was the Bucyrus-Erie Company’s Big Hog.