The largest of these draglines is roughly the size of a small high school gym, with a boom up to 330 feet long – about the length of a football field – and weighing as much as 200 train cars.

The dragline forms part of a large collection of ... interested parties may wish to book accommodation in Kleinzee or Springbok. A small airstrip also lies within close reach of Kleinzee.

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 ...

More than 700 tires rolling in unison will deliver BNI Coal’s 9.5 million-pound Liberty dragline to its new site. Using a method only done three or four times nationwide, BNI Coal is moving ...