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Equipment

Bulldozers, excavators, cranes, trucks -- many folks passed by these machines daily during construction of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project to present.

See large color photos and descriptions for some of the Big Dig's big machines:

Augering Drill Rig

Backhoe

Backhoe Excavator

Barrier Forming System

Boom Crane

Cat 350 Front End Excavator

Ceiling Module Erector

Compressed- Air-And-Vacuum Excavation Machine

Concrete Pumping Machine

Concrete Truck

Crane With Hammer

Crane With Hydromill

Demolition Hammer

Drilling Machine

Drilling Rig

Dutra "Super Scoop"

Front End Excavator

Hammer Crane

Heavy Lift Crane

Hydraulic Alpine Miner

Hydraulic Crane

Hydromill Trench Cutter

Launching Gantry

Mining Excavator

Mining Loader

Scissor Lift

Scoop-tram

Soil Mix Machine

Tower Crane

Two Cranes

Wall Panel Erector