Caption

West Mineral, Kansas, Big Brutus, the world's largest electric shovel built by Bucyrus-Erie for the Pittsburg and Midway coal mining company. The machine ran 24 hours a day from 1963 to 1974. It is now a tourist attraction

Date

Aug 12, 2024

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK25A43_399

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

86,1Mb (6,3Mb) / 22,4in x 14,9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)

Keywords

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