The only shovels heavy and robust enough for tough quarry work were the old-faithful steam ... shovel's full-swing capability. In 1925 Bucyrus answered the call with the 120-B, announced as the ...

From this machine, the half-swinging "railroad shovel" was developed, its name derived from the fact that the early shovels were mounted on standard-gauge rail ... Bucyrus Co. took over manufacturing ...

Chassis improvements included metal tracks, wheels, caterpillar tracks and mobile steel railroad-track-mounted ... Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing — which produced its first steam shovel ...

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 ...

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.

In 1893, the company moved to Milwaukee and became known as Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Co. of Wisconsin. It went through several name changes before merging with Erie Steam Shovel Co. and ...

ITD’s steam shovel was manufactured by Bucyrus, which produced equipment that excavated the Panama Canal, and the company eventually became part of Caterpillar July 8, 2011, according to ITD.