The Erie A and B steam shovels were aggressively promoted, and their design concepts proved so successful that Ball dominated the small-excavator market. Ball Engine spun off its stationary steam ...

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 ...

PITTSBURG, Penn., Jan. 15. -- A special from New-Brighton, Penn., says: "At 3:40 o'clock this afternoon the boiler of the steam shovel used by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway Company in ...

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 ...

Sometimes the seasons move swiftly. Sometimes there comes an hour when men say "Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring." Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business ...

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

Seven years later, the company merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to create Bucyrus-Erie, which would be the major employer in South Milwaukee for nearly 120 years, it’s club becoming a ...

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 ...