So many times that my memories are worn. There was more than just the coal trains. There was that giant shovel. Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel. And they tortured the ...

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 ...

That’s because in my hands I’ll be holding a supreme weapon: an old steel coal shovel. There’s no finer tool for the task of shoveling snow—especially when that “snow” is in fact that ...

Power shovels used to excavate the earth have proved essential to the mining industry, including open-pit and coal mining in the United States, for 150 years. Made up of a boom, dipper stick and ...

it was a machine – one of the largest mechanical contraptions every built on land and definitely the largest coal shovel ever. Formally known as the Marion 6360 stripping shovel, the $25 million ...

Rising Tide said in a statement that 20 of the group had climbed onto the train to unload the coal with shovels, while another 30 provided support. Police said 47 activists were charged with "rail ...