Big Muskie

Retired: only its bucket survives Bucyrus-Erie's 4250-W was the largest walking dragline ever built, swinging a 220-cubic-yard bucket at a coal mine in southeastern Ohio. Between 1969 and 1991 it moved more than 483 million tons of rock and earth, and the whole machine weighed about 13,500 tons. It was dismantled in 1999. What remains of the machine in the picture is that bucket, now the centerpiece of Miners' Memorial Park near McConnelsville. Standing beside it is the best way left to grasp the scale of the walking giant it once hung from.