Ole shovel 5 finally kicked the bucket the other day. Actually its bucket is still fine but everything else is all seized up. After 33 years or so it is finally being retired. I wonder if it may have been the last operational 2100 in the world- well, probably not but almost certainly the last one in North America. It was due to be retired in two months after our new hydraulic shovel showed up but I guess it was just too tired. Fair enough. I was given the honor of walking it out to its final resting place but after fiddling with it for a few hours to make it go, we discovered that it would not. So someone else will have to take it on its anti-maiden voyage.
I took a whole slew of photos, including some of the cab, and you can look at them here if you want.