Heavy D attempts to bring a giant excavator roaring back to life.

Big Muskie’, once the world’s largest walking dragline excavator, is being honored with a new historical marker.

Workers are now operating two remote-controlled D-8 Caterpillar excavators at the Regent’s Slide site on Big Sur, according to a release the agency sent out Thursday.

The largest and most challenging excavation since the realignment of the Frackville grade began in 2022, workers from the J. D. Eckman highway construction company will employ giant excavators to ...