Tag: bridge damage

Roadbuilding

Engineers begin evaluation of Ore.’s Swan Island bridge damage after tanker cars derailed

Engineers are studying the damage to Oregon's Swan Island bridge for repair after two Union Pacific locomotives and three tanker cars derailed. Details here.

October 8, 2019

Roadbuilding

Assessing Harvey’s damage to Texas infrastructure a difficult task

Officials say damage by Hurricane Harvey in southeast Texas is extensive…and ongoing, Engineering News-Record reports. Infrastructure assessments have been difficult, however, because almost all transportation networks remain completely shut down. All flights have been suspended in the Houston area, all port operations have ceased at Houston and Galveston, the Federal Railroad Administration declared a state of […]

August 31, 2017

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma spring storms could cost the state $200 million in infrastructure damages

Oklahoma’s stormy spring has been called a “once in 300-years flood,” and such significant weather carries an equally significant price tag. The total damage to the state’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure could end up costing upwards of $200 million, according to what the director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management told KOCO 5 News. […]

August 11, 2015

Roadbuilding

Man arrested for damaging bridge under construction

A man in Bunnell, Florida, has been arrested for allegedly damaging a bridge under construction. The man, identified as Charles “Skeeter” Larkin Cowart Jr., 31, was seen “doing donuts” in freshly poured concrete with a four-wheeler while screaming at construction workers rebuilding the County Road 305 bridge. According to the police report, the four-wheeler the man was […]

December 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

A truck hauling a boom lift hit a bridge so hard, the bridge shifted 5 feet off its supports (PHOTOS)

No. 9 Story in 2014 « No. 10 No. 8 »   Folks hauling equipment and hitting bridges because they don’t know the height of their load is nothing new. Chunks of bridges are taken all the time and some bridges and trestles see repeated collisions. However, a report from WISTV out of Spartanburg, South […]

January 16, 2014

Construction Equipment

Know Your Load: Truck hauling a drill rig gets stuck, takes a chunk of bridge with it

A few weeks ago we shared a video with you of a low-clearance train trestle in North Carolina that trucks seem drawn to like flies to a zapper. We thought the video did a nice job of illustrating why so many of this country’s bridges are in such bad shape. Well, here’s another example from […]

November 26, 2013

Roadbuilding

Truck hits, damages three bridge beams with an excavator

Oops—he did it again, and again and again. A driver carrying an oversize load hit three bridges on Texas’ Interstate 20 at the Crain Avenue overpass after a 34-year-old man from Sonora, Texas, hit them with an oversized load, the Odessa American reports. According to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and in a criminal complaint filed […]

September 27, 2013