More Than a Machine: ‘Big Boy’ No. 4014 Sparks a Nationwide Reunion

Commentary ALTOONA, Pennsylvania—In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic 1939 children’s book “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,” Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, “could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that this was true.” By the end […]