At one time the lettering on the side said "Gem of Egypt". Then there was an internal fire that scorched the paint and since they were going to move it out of the EGYPT Valley they just renamed it "The Gem". Thanks for the comment.
I grew up about 25 minutes from this location in Comerain, Ohio. I can say that I am old enough that I can remember visiting the site in Egypt Valley while this incredible machine was still in operation. Obviously pre-1989. Some of my very best memories😄
There is an excellent photo of The GEM of Egypt on the front cover of the Feb 1973 Smithsonian Magazine. Other gargantuan stripping shovels include The Captain, The Mountaineer, The Silver Spade, and Big Brutus. The Silver Spade was GEM's twin. The GEM gave parts to The Silver Spade before it too, was shut down. Of all these stripping shovels, The Captain was by far the biggest ever built. It was much larger than Silver Spade or GEM of Egypt. Only one giant stripping shovel remains as a museum. BIg Brutus in West Mineral Kansas.
Nope, the only machine of this kind to survive until today is called Big Brutus and sits in a museum in Kansas. The last big mining shovel in operation was The Silver Spade, also a Bucyrus 1950 like the GEM. There where many attempts to preserve this one as well. But the money wasn't enough, so it had to dig it's own grave, where it has been burried ever since.
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Spooky seeing the GEM Sparkling as she decays away!
Consolidated Coal should have donated this to Harrison County Coal museum as a remembrance to the great coal industry in Ohio.
They say machines have a soul too...I imagine Ol Gem's soul has seen better days...Poor old girl...:(...
At one time the lettering on the side said "Gem of Egypt". Then there was an internal fire that scorched the paint and since they were going to move it out of the EGYPT Valley they just renamed it "The Gem". Thanks for the comment.
@ 16:33... Thid sucker ran in a continuous 1.21 iiggawatts!!!
I grew up about 25 minutes from this location in Comerain, Ohio. I can say that I am old enough that I can remember visiting the site in Egypt Valley while this incredible machine was still in operation. Obviously pre-1989. Some of my very best memories😄
There is an excellent photo of The GEM of Egypt on the front cover of the Feb 1973 Smithsonian Magazine. Other gargantuan stripping shovels include The Captain, The Mountaineer, The Silver Spade, and Big Brutus. The Silver Spade was GEM's twin. The GEM gave parts to The Silver Spade before it too, was shut down. Of all these stripping shovels, The Captain was by far the biggest ever built. It was much larger than Silver Spade or GEM of Egypt. Only one giant stripping shovel remains as a museum. BIg Brutus in West Mineral Kansas.
I'm trying to imagine a 1/14 remote control model of this... I suspect it would be bigger than my house
the Giant Earth Mover... cool vid
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment.
Let’s gets that thing runing
Tall machine at the end of this, is it still there today?
Nope, the only machine of this kind to survive until today is called Big Brutus and sits in a museum in Kansas. The last big mining shovel in operation was The Silver Spade, also a Bucyrus 1950 like the GEM. There where many attempts to preserve this one as well. But the money wasn't enough, so it had to dig it's own grave, where it has been burried ever since.
@@muskel-john9189 wow,
@@muskel-john9189 the gem and spade were both scrapped. Only machine that was buried was the big hog in Kentucky.
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 The Mountaineer is gone as well.