News last week that the state has sold the old Idaho Transportation Department headquarters property on State Street to developers brought up a question among some of us in the newsroom. What’s going ...

A steam shovel found embedded in the bottom of Wixom Lake in October 2020 is well on its way to being fully restored. Mike Oberloier, of Beaverton, who now owns the shovel, recently displayed parts of ...

Captain Richard Thew is credited with building America's first fully revolving shovel and, like most inventions, it originated from an idea to serve a specific need. Back in the 1890s, Thew, captain ...

Our street was hectic and noisy for two months last summer as a storm drainage system was brought up to snuff. Hearing an at times steady vroom-vroom and ding-ding-ding, I wondered about the ...

I became captivated by steam shovels as a tiny tot. How could I not after having “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shove”l by Virginia Lee Burton read to me multiple times. I am sure I was not the only one ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of a rail mounted steam ...

Photograph of a rail mounted steam shovel loading dump cars for two waiting steam locomotives. The hillside next to the shovel and locomotives appears to have already had dirt cut out of it. Steam ...

The 1930s are bookended by two classics of children’s literature: Watty Piper’s “The Little Engine That Could” (1930) and “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" (1939) by Newton Centre (Massachusetts) ...

The American steam shovel—and all steam shovels are of American manufacture—marks an era in man's conquest of nature. One of the most powerful of the tools that steam and steel have made possible, it ...