Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

When gold was discovered in Alaska at the end of the 19th century, it was individual miners who initially exploited the resource using picks and shovels and other rudimentary equipment. As easy ...

BEULAH - A gigantic dragline working a coal seam at Dakota Westmoreland Mine near Beulah tipped precariously forward when ground beneath it crumbled away. The incident happened about 5 a.m. Sunday at ...

Could you imagine buying a 40-ton 1927 Bucyrus 41B Dragline from a farmer in Canada, clearing land to get it from the farm, through woods and to the main road, hauling it all the way to Edgerton and ...

Sep. 30—SCAMMON, Kan. — A walking dragline idled in Cherokee County for decades is one step closer to becoming a roadside attraction in Southeast Kansas. Workers with Tilton and Sons House Moving, of ...