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Big Brutus

West Mineral, KS

This enormous electric mining shovel once stripped overburden from southeast Kansas coal fields and now stands preserved as a museum centerpiece. Its scale is difficult to understand until standing beneath the 16-story machine.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: bigbrutus.org

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