The Silver Spade's last pass, 2:00 pm, April 9, 2006.
She was digging her way out of the hole to be retired, with the possibility of becoming a museum, but it was discovered that the roller circle had broken again.
It was finally decided to cut her up on the spot.
This was shot with an early digital camera. Recently we found a big box of Sony Digital 8 tapes, and have a few of them up, including the Silver Spade and a very neat big Bucyrus 50B steam shovel..
