ODNR and many Central Ohio Coal Company employees recently gathered at Miner's Memorial Park to honor Big Muskie's historical and engineering impact.

Folks who live nearby know about the machine — a dragline excavator used for surface mining of coal. Since 1995, it has been unused. That's when demand for coal fell and mining companies cut ...

The dragline known as Big John will no longer be needed at the former Hobet 21 surface mining site with mining done and reclamation nearly completed. Big John weighs nearly 8 million pounds and is ...

Recently, SWEPCO moved a gigantic piece of equipment used in lignite mining; it’s known as a dragline. “The drag line is large in scope,” said SWEPCO spokesman Scott McCloud, “with a 325 ...

Sep. 30—SCAMMON, Kan. — A walking dragline idled in Cherokee County for decades is one step closer to becoming a roadside attraction in Southeast Kansas. Workers with Tilton and Sons House ...

BEULAH - A gigantic dragline working a coal seam at Dakota Westmoreland Mine near Beulah tipped precariously forward when ground beneath it crumbled away. The incident happened about 5 a.m. Sunday ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) unveiled a new historical marker at Jesse Owens State Park on Monday, paying ...

FRANKLIN, Kan. — For more than 60 years, a Page 618 Walking Dragline has been working to dig coal on land in northeastern Cherokee County — or just sitting on that land. Early in 2023 ...