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Erie B Steam Shovel Part 1 of 2 from 2006

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Erie B Steam Shovel working at the National Pike show, Browmsville PA.

Part 1 of 2 from 2006

There are 2 working steam shovels at the show, plus dozens of diesel shovels and draglines. Erie Shovel merged with Bucyrus to form Bucyrus Erie.

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  • OK, help me out here as Im trying to understand these old beauties. The engine runs on coal, and the boom/arm/bucket trap door run from pressurised steam instead of hydraulic fluid, correct? Thanks.

  • @lugger2010 Everything runs on steam, except that the bucket door is just a latch that you open by pulling the trip rope.

  • I was in Brownsville PA in 1988 .alot of the equipment at that time belonged to Dean Redd

  • @drub205dine269 The equipment has passed to other club members, but nobody is in a hurry to paint out his name. He did an awful lot for machinery preservation in PA.

    The Erie B at Brownsville now is not Dean's, that one was a high front, and sold somewhere out east. This one was owned by Rusty McGinness, of Dover OH. He showed it at various shows for many years, when he got too old he donated it to the club. Wish I had good videos of him operating it, he was a real master.

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  • this reminds me of the book Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel

  • Steam ships,shovels, locomotive! the BEST!

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  • Existem talvez 6 ou 8 destas maravilhosas maquinas entregues à ferrugem e ao descaso no cais do porto, em Porto Alegre RS, Brasil.

  • how many can it take in the bucket?

  • this is really cool, but thank christ for modern engineering, it looks like it takes forever to do anything with that contraption

  • whear is the coal hopper and is the bowler huge or small

  • ahh i love national pike! went for 2004 2007 and 2010 least by my picture but im sure ive went more than that!

    in my mind its the only tractor show that has realy grown in these hard times! its always a pleasure and a privlage to watch them old shovels and trucks haulin dirt!

  • Great stuff . Keep up the good work.

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