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How the First Caterpillar Tractor Ever Built — Serial # EXP 0000-L — Was Rescued and Restored
A parts search led to finding the Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s first tractor built entirely off the fledgling company's new design.
August 5, 2020
Vintage Equipment
PHOTOS: Cat displays contractor’s amazing antique machine collection at visitors center
Visitors at the Caterpillar Visitors Center (CVC) in Peoria, Illinois, are now able to view seven antique Cat machines of one construction firm’s premier 125-piece-plus collection. Doug and Matt Veerkamp, the father and son who head the 200-employee Doug Veerkamp General Engineering in Placerville, California, have been collecting for years, specializing in antique Cat machines, […]
August 29, 2017
Construction Equipment
Watching antique steam shovels work makes excavator regen times seem not so bad
In this age of joystick controls, climate-controlled cabs, machine control and load-sensing hydraulics, it’s easy to get frustrated with current machine annoyances like the Tier 4 engine transition, regeneration times and various other things. But it wasn’t too long ago that the following videos were the excavator operator’s reality. Watching these Erie Steam Shovels work is […]
April 7, 2016
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