The vintage steam shovel that for the last nine years has sat outside the Nederland Mining Museum took a long, circuitous route to the small Boulder County mountain town. The steam shovel’s first stop ...

A steam shovel found embedded in the bottom of Wixom Lake in October 2020 is well on its way to being fully restored. Mike Oberloier, of Beaverton, who now owns the shovel, recently displayed parts of ...

DARLINGTON — Ninety-three years after it rolled off the production line in Beaver Falls, a rare vintage steam shovel has returned to Beaver County, thanks to an Ohio collector and a group of history ...

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 ...

"Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton, a children's book published in 1939, is about a hard-working Irishman, his power shovel named Mary Anne and the digging of a basement for a ...