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Watch these crews slide a half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place over the Ohio River
Construction crews have completed a record-breaking bridge slide over the Ohio River. Related: VIDEO: Portland engineers use dish soap to move century-old bridge At nearly a half-mile in length and weighing in at more than 30 million pounds, the Milton-Madison bridge is a new steel truss bridge that replaces a span originally built in 1929. […]
April 15, 2014
Construction Equipment
Crews pull half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place in record-breaking slide
Construction crews have completed a record-breaking bridge slide over the Ohio River. At nearly a half-mile in length and weighing in at more than 30 million pounds, the Milton-Madison bridge is a new steel truss bridge that replaces a span originally built in 1929. It is now the largest bridge in North America (perhaps the […]
April 14, 2014
Roadbuilding
The Man Who Slides Bridges
Any story is valuable if it can show us how to do our work better. And especially when that work is big, massively expensive, part of our daily lives and paid for by tax dollars. For example, an old bridge that serves as a temporary route while the new bridge is being built. Better Roads […]
April 8, 2013
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