Moving the Enos Coal Company Stripping Shovel



One of the last obstacles faced by this Enos Coal Company stripping shovel in a 10 mile, two month cross country trek was Southern's tracks in Pike County, Ind. To get the 10 story high monster across the tracks required the removal of a section of rails and the piling up of about six feet of earth over the road bed. Finally, wooden mats were laid on top of the earth providing the needed support to keep the shovel from demolishing the roadbed with its tremendous weight.