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1/48 O-Gauge Bucyrus Steam Shovel, Toy Trucker Limited Edition - TWH Collectibles
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Code: bucyrus
Price: $224.95
Shipping Weight: 10.00 pounds
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1/48 O-Gauge Bucyrus Steam Shovel, Limited Edition. Mfd by TWH Collectibles.
Clearance Price. Original price was $349.95.
Toy Trucker & Contractor Exclusive.
Dimensions are 16" by 5.25" by over 8"H
This steam shovel helped build the Panama Canal.
All-metal Construction.
Removable house.
Removable mast strap and smokestack.
Gear driven pistons.
Hinged coal door and platform.
Detailed interior including nickel-plated boiler and piping.
Keys provided for forward and reverse gear, raising and lowering of dipper, left and right boom swing, and crowd action.
Functional dipper trip rope.
Sliding doors and operational windows.
Removable hitch engineered to look and function like original.
Functional trucks and suspension.
Functional outriggers.
Functional winches that use chains and rope to operate the functions of the steam shovel.
From 1904 to 1908, Bucyrus shipped 77 steam shovels to the Panama Canal construction site, one of the greatest excavation projects of the twentieth century.
President Theodore Roosevelt climbed aboard a 95-ton Bucyrus shovel during his inspection tour of the Panama Canal in 1908.
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