Traveling home from Central Kansa to our home here in Springfied on Hiway 400 and getting close to Pittsburg, Ks, I saw the sign for Big Brutus. Having passed this sign many times, I decided to see Big Brutus. We turned South off 400 on to Hiway 7 and found Big Brutus, the second largest electric shovel in the world. Built for the SW Kansas coal field strip mines by Bucyrus-Erie for the Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Co. How big is big? If you would build an O-Scale model, you would have a 40 inch tall model, something Leaving Tracks would build. We were impressed.
You can visit the website: www.bigbrutus.org Enjoy your visit. A foot note, Kansas at one time supplied 33% of coal for the United States.
Al
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