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Sanjay F:
I knew it wouldn't take long before we were all in for another treat - hope the ankle gets better soon and i'll be watching the build :ThumbsUp: :popcorn:
crueby:
--- Quote from: Sanjay F on December 06, 2025, 08:47:25 PM ---I knew it wouldn't take long before we were all in for another treat - hope the ankle gets better soon and i'll be watching the build :ThumbsUp: :popcorn:
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The ankle is fine, thanks!
vtsteam:
I just looked it up online and read that steamshovels were losing favor in the 30's. So that makes me doubt myself. But I have a very clear memory of my father pointing one out as we stood at a wooden barricade in Manhattan, and the steam and the cables and the crossed booms, so characteristic.
But it was 1952-1954, not 30's. It was far down below us digging a foundation. Maybe he said the words "steam shovel" generically to a child - I had the Mike Moran book. But my father was an engineer and designer of machinery with a large machine shop that he owned. I can't imagine him approximating what we were looking at. He seemed as excited by it as I was. I don't think it was diesel therefore. Maybe it was one of the last shovels doing work. I don't know. But I remember the sight of it, and the billowing smoke, and the details. So to me, I did see one at work, once upon a time! :cheers:
crueby:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on December 07, 2025, 12:09:17 AM ---I just looked it up online and read that steamshovels were losing favor in the 30's. So that makes me doubt myself. But I have a very clear memory of my father pointing one out as we stood at a wooden barricade in Manhattan, and the steam and the cables and the crossed booms, so characteristic.
But it was 1952-1954, not 30's. It was far down below us digging a foundation. Maybe he said the words "steam shovel" generically to a child - I had the Mike Moran book. But my father was an engineer and designer of machinery with a large machine shop that he owned. I can't imagine him approximating what we were looking at. He seemed as excited by it as I was. I don't think it was diesel therefore. Maybe it was one of the last shovels doing work. I don't know. But I remember the sight of it, and the billowing smoke, and the details. So to me, I did see one at work, once upon a time! :cheers:
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Lots of people still call brand new hydraulic diesel excavators a "steam shovel". Actual steam ones were still used long after they stopped making new ones. The one here at the quarry in LeRoy was used till the late 40s. They often got used till they wore out, if it aint broke dont replace it!
vtsteam:
:) :ThumbsUp: :cheers:
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