Bucyrus-Erie 50-R, 55 feet high and housing a massive drill, was used in the successful rescue of two miners during the 1963 Sheppton, Pennsylvania mining disaster.

“Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline excavator owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power), weighing 13,500 short tons (12,200 …

A look at a 1961 Bucyrus-Erie 1250-W walking dragline nicknamed "The Anthracite King". Like mining and draglines? Follow PAmining today for the full experience!

Jun 24, 2025 · A new marker went up this month in Ohio to celebrate the largest dragline ever built. (You can check out Big Muskie in action in the video at the end of this article.)

Mar 21, 2024 · Most of the overburden at the mine is taken care of by not one, but three Bucyrus-Erie 2570-W walking draglines with 123-cubic-yard buckets and various boom sizes: two with …

Dec 1, 2024 · Nicknamed Muskie or Ol’ Musky, the Big Muskie was a Model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline and the only one of its kind ever built. Constructed between 1967 and 1969, the …

Oct 2, 2025 · Products of this industry range from little Bobcats to giant bulldozers. They include road rollers and scrapers, surface mining shovels and trucks, and cranes (overhead, mobile, …

Big Muskie was a dragline excavator built by Bucyrus-Erie and owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power), weighing 13,500 short tons (12,200 …

Bucyrus Erie Specifications Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company that built crawler cranes, truck-mounted cranes, and draglines.

In 1927, the company purchased the Erie Steam Shovel Company and changed the name to Bucyrus Erie. During World War II, Bucyrus produced draglines, shovels, 240-millimeter …