David Hope's

Mining Scenes

 

BE 3850 THE BIG HOG
Peabody coal's Sinclair Mine.
weighs 22 million pounds,
 115-yd. (170 tons ) dipper.
stands 20 stories high.


BE3850 115-yd.
Erected in 1962 at Peabody Coal Company's Sinclair Mine, Drakesboro,Kentucky.

The boom had just fallen on Mar 4,1980.
The new boom was finished on june 13, 1980,
& put back in service.

When Sinclair closed, this machine was burried.

 

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