DykonPowderman (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I like your video of Big Muskie. I work for one of the men who shot the boom down with explosives when it was being demolished. Thanks for putting this together.

jamesandrew2000 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Guess again. The company sold it for scrap to the Chinese you goofball.

suharinos (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

What a machine!, sadly it's being demolished :( only thing left is the bucket.. and that is HUGE too

ray3rd (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

That was very well made, I don't know where you dug up so many pics.Coal will make a comeback but surface mining probably won't since near surface deposits are disappearing. Either way Big Muskie could not be used because the mine was reclaimed and it would be easier to build a new one than to entirely dismantle it and reassemble elsewhere.The owners would have left it there for the public, but the environmentalists wanted it gone. Thanks a lot...

1oupunk (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

east liverpool is as far as you can go north on the ohio river, and still be in ohio...call it six hours by rail from mcconnelsville, 50 miles from egypt valley(still surface mining there), or possibly mere minutes from parts of harrison county.

manga12 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I dont know where east liverpool is, but yes you are right there are ways to make dirty coal cleaner even if they have to convert it to coke. and you might be surprized how much is left in ohio, we have over 200 years of coal reserves left in the states not including oil shael even with the new techniques to boil the oil out of the shale it is still very expencive and it will be a much better day when we can have renewable resorces to fuel our contry. then we can truly be free.

1oupunk (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

the irony is that not even ten years later, the tech is there to make "bad" coal viable again. don't know how much is actually left in south eastern ohio, but with a coal-liquid plant being built near east liverpool, someone's probably kicking themselves.

bigmuskie666 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

i own a ho scale model of the 4250w and even in that scale it is more than half the size of my car and is almost as tall as me!

COLSTAGS (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

This was a weapon. It sure left a bid hole in the ground. The picture with dozers looks like the where changing the Tub or base.

be2750 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

no they pulling the tub or base