STEAM SHOVEL REGISTER
This page is a listing of steam shovels and cranes located through out the world. Hopefully this list will grow as more steam cranes are discovered. If you know of any steam cranes that are not listed here please let me know by clicking here.
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Owned by: The Pringles
Make: Marion
Model: Model 21
Serial Number: 4278 (year = 1921)
Location: B. C. near the town of Kamloops
Contact: val@direct.ca
Web site: http://val238.tripod.com/steamenginesinwestwold/index.html. Lots of interesting stuff including a great story about moving a steam shovel.
Comments: The Pringles have done a wonderful job of rescuing and restoring this shovel. The machine was partially buried and was disassembled and moved 600 miles to their home where it is operated annually.
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Owned by: Roots of Motive Power
Make: Bucyrus Erie
Model: 50-B
Serial Number: ? (year = 1932)
Location: Mendocino County Museum in Willits, CA
Contact: romp@zapcom.net
Comments: Check out their web site for the full story on this large shovel at http://www.rootsofmotivepower.com/html/collection_12.html .
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Owned by: Southeast Old Threshers
Make: Erie
Model: B
Serial Number: ?
Location: Southeast Old Threshers' Show Grounds, Denton, North Carolina
Contact:
Comments: Willard Moore puts on a good show when he operates this machine.
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Owned by: Divide County Pioneer Threshing Show
Make: Erie
Model: B
Serial Number: ?
Location: Divide County Pioneer Threshing Show Grounds, Crosby, North Dakota
Contact:
Comments: As you can see she is in pretty rough shape.
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Owned by: ?
Make: Bucyrus Erie
Model: 42-B
Serial Number: ?
Location: Rough and Tumble Engineer's Association Show Grounds, Kinzers, Pennsylvania
Contact: Ross "Tiny" Miller
Comments:
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Owned by: National Pike Steam, Gas & Horse Association (Donated by Rusty McGinness)
Make: Erie
Model: B
Serial Number: 2098 (1927)
Location: National Pike show grounds in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Contact:
Comments: This machine has been, and will probably continue to be, displayed at many Historical Construction Equipment shows around the country.
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Owned by: Robert Kelly
Make: Thew
Model: Type O
Serial Number: 956
Location: McDonald, PA
Contact: shovelman1@webtv.net
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Owned by: ?
Make: Bucyrus
Model: ?
Serial Number: ?
Location: Ohio Valley Antique Machinery Show Grounds, Georgetown, Ohio
Contact:
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Owned by: Larry Marmet
Make: Erie
Model: B
Serial Number: ?
Location: Upstate New York
Contact: Larry Marmet phone: 1-315-822-5430 e-mail: SteamShovelman@aol.com
Comments:
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Owned by: ?
Make: Marion
Model: ?
Serial Number: ? (1908)
Location: LeRoy, New York
Contact: ?
Comments: This is a beautiful Marion Railroad Shovel that was converted to tracks. It would be great if someone or some organization was able to move it to a location so people could see it.
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Owned by: ?
Make: Osgood
Model: ?
Serial Number: ?
Location: Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Show Grounds, Easton, Maryland.
Contact: engines@tuckahoesteam.org
Comments: The Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Association is looking for individuals interested restoring this machine. There web site is http://www.tuckahoesteam.org
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Owned by: ?
Make: Marion
Model: Model 21
Serial Number: ?
Location: New Hampshire
Contact:
Comments: Another diamond in the rough.
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Owned by: Western Museum of Mining & Industry
Make: Osgood
Model:
Serial Number: ?
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Contact: info@wmmi.org
Comments: This Machine can be viewed at
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Owned by: City of Dunedin
Make: Ruston
Model: No. 10
Serial Number: 1031
Location: Gas works museum in Dunedin, New Zealand
Contact: ay.ansin@glassbeads.co.nz
Comments:
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Owned by: Leo Helmschrott
Make: Menck & Hambrock (German)
Model: Menck MIV
Serial Number: ?
Location: In a quarry near Heidelberg
Contact: leo.helmschrott@planet-interkom.de
Comments:
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Owned by: Jim Briden (of Fargo, North Dakota)
Make: Marion
Model: 21 (1923)
Serial Number: ?
Location: Western Minnesota Steam Threshers show grounds, Rollag Minnesota
Contact:
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Owned by: Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc.
Make: Bucyrus
Model: 20B
Serial Number: 3720
Location: Healy, Alaska
Contact: H. Keith Walters keith@usibelli.com
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Owned by: Cement works at Fyansford
Make: Ruston
Model: 20 snc (steam navy srane) (1923)
Serial Number:
Location: Lake Goldsmith, Victoria, Australia
Contact: prod_eng@xtreme.net.a Ross Shiltern
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Owned by: Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario
Make:1929 or 1930 Bucsyus-Erie
Model:
Serial Number:
Location: Morrisburg Ontario Canada
Contact: 1 (613)543-2911 Ext 179
Comments:
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Owned by: Joyce Hoffmaster and Daniel Greger
Make: Locomotive Crane Company of America in Chicago, IL
Model: Little Giant Road Crane.
Serial Number: 202
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Contact: Joyce Hoffmaster <Jehoffmast@aol.com>
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Location: Costa Rica
Contact: Gustavo Montalvo <gmontalvo@cfia.or.cr>
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Location: Perry Creek, just out of Cranbrook, B.C.
Contact: Chris Pritchard <puffie40@hotmail.com>
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Australia Blair Athol Coal Mine, Claremont, Queensland
1927 Ruston No. 6 crawler mounted revolving steam shovel.
Geelong, Victoria
1903 vintage Bucyrus model 65C rail mounted non-rotating steam shovel.
Whiteman Park, Perth
1912-1922 vintage Bucyrus model 14-B revolving steam shovel.
Canada Reynolds Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin
1917 Bucyrus Class 24 steam drag line. s/n 874 (restoration in progress)
Atlin, British Columbia
(2) 1924 Erie model B's
Ceal Tingley Memorial Park, Quesnel, British Columbia
Vulcan steam powered railroad shovel. Pre 1910 vintage.
O'Keefe Ranch Museum, Vernon, British Columbia
1922 or 23 Erie B steam crane
Nova Scotia Museum of Industry, Stellarton, Nova Scotia
1929 Bucyrus Erie Model B-2 steam shovel
Klondike National Historic Site, Dawson Creek, Yukon
1912 Marion #4 gold dredge
Costa Rica San Jose State, Tibas
Marion model 60 Railroad style steam shovel, s/n 1799. Shipped to Isthmisian Canal. Commisioned
on Nov. 7th, 1907.
England Beamish North East Industrial Museum, Durham
1931 Ruston model 25 steam shovel
Leicester Museum of Technology, Leicestershire
1935 Ruston-Bucyrus model 52-RB steam shovel.
Germany Deutsches Dampflokomotiv Museum (German Steam locomotiv Museum),
Neuenmarkt/ Northern Bavaria
1927 DEMAG (6 tons)
Panama Panama Canal
75-ton Bucyrus railroad steam crane
United States of America Ken McCrary, Davanport, California
Bucyrus Erie B-2. Operational but boom is being rebuilt.
Craycroft Brick Co., Fresno, California
Marion (not sure of model)
Virgil White, Riverside, California
Bucyrus 30B
Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, California
Bucyrus dragline
Kentucky Railroad Museum, Brandenburg, Kentucky
Osgood Railroad steam shovel
Bill Rudicell, Petersburg, Kentucky
Bucyrus-Erie 50-B steam shovel
Michigan Limestone Operations, Rogers City, Michigan
1911 Vulcan 3/4 yard traction steam shovel. s/n 1622
Jim Rhodes, Bridgeport, Michigan
3/4 yard Bucyrus Erie
Minnesota Mining Museum, Chisholm, Minnesota
1906 Atlantic Equipment Co. Class 45 railroad steam shovel. Railroad trucks replaced with crawlers.
Modern Machinery Co., Missoula, Montana
Ball Engine steam shovel
Lloyd Harkins, Silver Star, Montana
Bucyrus Model 70C. Used on Panama Canal.
N. Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, North Carolina
1919 Bucyrus Model 150-17 steam powered railroad crane
Ponderosa Ranch, Incline Village, Nevada
Erie B
Ray Fleetwood, Kinzer (Rough and Tumble show grounds), Pennsylvania
1922 Erie model B steam shovel
Dean Redd, Charleroi, Pennsylvania
Erie model B steam shovel
1907 Keystone steam powered churn drill
1915 Keystone #3 steam powered skimmer
Steam Town Museum, Bellows Falls, Vermont
1922 Marion Model 21 steam shovel
Sisson & Ryan Quarry, Shawsville, Virginia
1926 Erie B-2 steam shovel
Smith Well Drilling, Baraboo, Wisconsin
1903 Keystone #4 steam powered churn drill
Rock River Thresheree, Edgerton, Wisconsin
1905 American steam pile driver
1920's Bucyrus model 103-C railroad steam shovel mounted on crawlers.
1870 Byers 3/4 swing steam crane on wheels
1929 Orton steam powered crane
1928 Osgood 1-1/4 yard 45 ton steam shovel. s/n 1292
National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
1903, Bucyrus 80 ton steam railroad crane. s/n 123
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