News last week that the state has sold the old Idaho Transportation Department headquarters property on State Street to developers brought up a question among some of us in the newsroom. What’s going ...

The cable-operated excavator is the earliest documented self-powered machine ever used to move earth. Its earliest form, the steam shovel, has roots going back to the very first mechanical excavator, ...

Our street was hectic and noisy for two months last summer as a storm drainage system was brought up to snuff. Hearing an at times steady vroom-vroom and ding-ding-ding, I wondered about the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of a rail mounted steam ...

A Photograph with a ¾ rear view of a rail-mounted steam shovel with its crew at work removing hillside. A large pile of dirty has already been built up, and a steam locomotive can be seen approaching ...

Jeff Solak got tired of building righteous Harleys for everyone else all day then riding home on his beater Shovelhead, so he decided to take his old reliable and give it the treatment. After two ...

The steam shovel excavating for the Laurel Hill Terrace sewer has advanced to a point opposite the gate entering the State Hospital.

Now that the state has sold the 44-acre site of the Idaho Transportation Department headquarters on State Street, what will become of the old steam shovel that’s housed there now? Scott ...