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 excavating at Fallston ...

A steam shovel in action on the tracks during Copper Range Railroad construction. Copper Range Railroad Construction, Nara 42-162, MS-797: J. W. Nara Photograph Collection. After Wright and his ...

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.