"Big Lou" is a Bucyrus-Erie 2570-W Dragline
used in the Coal Mines
near Estevan Saskatchewan Canada
Officially Commissioned, Sept 21, 1979

 
When it was commissioned,
SPC issued these orange buttons,
and this little Spec. Sheet.
Close-up of the specs below.

Contains 4 motor generators
which convert the Direct Current to AC

Uses  30 peak megawatts of power.
supplied by it's own sub station
via a 23,000 volt cable.

4 operators, on various shifts work the machine.

It took 1500 man hours to build it.
Cost $35 million.
Cost 9 million more than estimated, due to work stoppages.

In 1984 a machine like this one sold for $54,347,783.00
not exactly pocket change to buy one.

In 1980 this machine was leased to Manalta Coal.

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Here is a web page where P&H is rebuilding a tub
for this model machine.

Video of a machine like this one, working

Video of a similar machine walking