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Author Topic: Steam Shovel found in bottom of Sanford Lake after the dam failed  (Read 753 times)

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Unless I'm mistaken, that shovel is an Erie B.

Someone should salvage it.

Chilling video of the dam failures.
That shovel is actually a Thew Type “O” horizontal crowd shovel. The boom is unmistakable. Thew shovels were built in Lorain, Ohio, about 15 minutes from where I live.
Mike

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