Similar to a locomotive, the crew was headed by an engineer, and included two firemen who stoked the boiler with coal, and a craneman.

A photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt was taken in November 1906 operating a Bucyrus shovel in Panama during his inspection trip.

In March 1910, a single Bucyrus shovel excavated 70,000 cubic yards in 26 days at the Culebra Cut, setting a canal construction record.

Ruston & Hornsby Ltd sold their share in Ruston-Bucyrus in 1985, during a period of recession and consolidation in the mining industry, as they divested non-core businesses to survive.

[citation needed] Bucyrus built hundreds of large mining machines, as well as construction equipment, competing with Marion Power Shovel.

[citation needed] On May 4, 2007, Bucyrus completed the acquisition of the DBT Group, a Lunen, Germany-based manufacturer of underground mining equipment, from Ruhrkohle AG of Herne, Germany.

[citation needed] In February 2010, Bucyrus International completed a US$1.3 billion acquisition of the mining equipment division of Terex Corporation, which partly sprang from O&K, including worlds largest hydraulic excavator RH 400, later produced as Cat 6090.[12].