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The “Tub” arrives at Dragline Park
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Derrick Tilton (l), owner of Tilton & Sons Housemoving, and Phyllis Bitner (r) of Miners Hall Museum, look over the “tub” of the Page 618 dragline, still filled with mud and muck, shortly after its arrival at Dragline Park in Franklin. - photo by Dustin R. Strong / The Moring Sun
FRANKLIN, Kan. — The odyssey of the Page 618 Walking Dragline continues as the “tub” of the massive machine arrived at Dragline Park in Franklin Tuesday morning. This massive chunk of steel sat on the ground, allowing the dragline to rotate.