May 7—WEST MINERAL, Kan. — Big Brutus, the electric dragline shovel that played an integral role in shaping the coal mining industry in Southeast Kansas, is turning 60 this year. A two-day event ...

MARION - For six years, the mining machine had sat idle, parked at a mine in Pennsylvania's Somerset County and rusting away. Known in the industry as a Model 7500 dragline, it was made by the Marion ...

WEST MINERAL, Kan. — Big Brutus, the electricity-powered, dragline shovel enshrined locally, made the cut and is now added to the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s list of ...

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 ...

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