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It is in West Mineral, Kansas, as the centerpiece of a museum. Bucyrus-Erie 50-R, 55 feet high and housing a massive drill, was used in the successful rescue of two miners during the 1963 Sheppton, Pennsylvania mining disaster. [17] 1250-B/W and 1260-W walking draglines, with buckets between 33 and 45 cu yd (25 and 34 m 3).
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations.
The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio.Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the model 1950-B was one of two of this model built, the other being its sister ship, the GEM of Egypt.
The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...
Bucyrus-Erie delivered the largest truck crane that had been sold in Erie to Perry Truck and Erection Co., to erect concrete beams on the thruway, in September 1958. The 88,000-pound crane sold ...
One stripping shovel, The Bucyrus-Erie 1850-B known as "Big Brutus" has been preserved as a national landmark and a museum with tours and camping. Another stripping shovel, The Bucyrus-Erie 3850-B known as "Big Hog" was eventually cut down in 1985 and buried on the Peabody Sinclair Surface Mining site near the Paradise Mining Plant where it was ...
For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King" Louis Marx — as Fortune magazine dubbed him in 1946 — was the largest toy ...
The museum's agricultural and industrial collection includes 350 agricultural machines and 455 industrial artifacts; [20] including a Bucyrus-Erie 200-B power shovel, and a Bucyrus Class 24 dragline from 1929. [21] The Bucyrus Class 24 the world's oldest existing dragline excavator. [21]