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Show Largest Electric Shovel The Engineering News-Record says that the largest power shovel in use today, according to its rec-orc.5, rec-orc.5, is not a steam shovel in the full sense of the word, but is an elettnc shovel. Steam as power for large shovels has been replaced largely by electric power or diesel engines. This electric shovel is in use -in an open-strip coal mine at Duq-ioin. III. It weighs 1,750 tons and required 53 "freight cars for tran: portal ion to l he work. It has a bucket capacity of 20 cubic vards which is the amount of ma'teriai that can he handled in one operation. opera-tion. This material would wei'h .'bout thirty tons. |