Nice looking old thing... It would be cool to restore it! Their is an old Bucyrus Erie dragline behind our R.V park that I will get some pics of if it ever stops raining!

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http://photobucket.com/cat627g equipment pics. theres nothing like the smell of asphalt in the morning!

I am trying to determine the model of the more rusted machine. With the size of the counterweight and the shape of the carrier, this would be either a late 50's or early 60's machine. I would guess of the 30 to 40 ton capacity range.

The New Orleans machine as I shall call it, makes life simple if we can depend on the labeling. A model 7450 was a 75 ton machine. It has the newer style stripe so it was well taken care of and re-striped into the newer style of lettering used before the slide of American. You ruled with one of these in the early 60's and was still a mainstream workhorse for many years thereafter. It in the early 70's was upgraded to a 7460 at 90 tons. There was a slightly later and sister model, the 7510 at 100 tons which was upgraded at the same time to the 7530 at 125 tons. Beyond these you went to the 800 series which began at 150 tons. Enough of the history comments.

Thank you for the pictures from the era of American equipment almost at its peak.