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A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity
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Big Brutus, which is now preserved as a museum
Big Brutus
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Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric power shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mini
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…in the mid-60s with the gigantic 12,700-ton Marion 6360, nicknamed The Captain. One stripping shovel, The 4,220-ton 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…
Big Brutus in 2014
Big Brutus fact sheet
Note cars by track for scale