A young girl stands inside the enormous bucket of Big Muskie, the worlds largest dragline excavator.
The machine stood 22 stories tall and weighed 12,000 tons.
After failing to find a buyer, the coal company dismantled the machine and sold it for scrap.
A large iron bucket and cab of The Silver Spade lies in the grass among other mining equipment.
The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio.
It operated from 1965 until the mines closed sometime in the late 20th century.
The machine was 220 feet tall and weighed 6,400 tons.
Bucket and operators cab from The Silver Spade on Stumptown Road west of New Athens, Ohio.
This large electric shovel was the second largest of its bang out in operation in the 1960s and 1970s.
It stands 16 stories tall and weighs nearly 6,000 tons.
While it is not the largest electric shovel ever built, its the largest electric shovel still in existence.
Later, the community built a small museum around this single exhibit.
This is possible because of its twelve crawlers that evenly distribute the weight over a large surface.
The Captain weighed 12,700 tons, comparable to that of some of the largest dragline excavators.
The Captain worked until 1991, when a fire broke out in the lower works of the shovel.
The damage was so great that it was never repaired.
One year later, The Captain was scrapped.
