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Roadbuilding
100 lbs. of Dynamite Used to Blow Up Tenn. Bridge
With nearly 100 pounds of dynamite, a two-lane bridge was destroyed in Clarksville, Tennessee, to make way for a four-lane span.
December 16, 2020
Roadbuilding
Implosion wipes away old Ky. bridge with flash of fire and smoke
This is easily one of the best bridge videos we’ve seen, offering several angles of the blast from an up close and personal perspective. The old Henry Lawrence Bridge over Lake Barkley in Trigg County, Kentucky, was demolished on the morning of April 11, WPSD Local 6 reports. The 3,104-foot bridge, which opened in 1932 […]
May 4, 2018
Roadbuilding
Quick implosion downs old Savanna Bridge over Miss. River
Within seconds, a bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa over the Mississippi River came down in one giant blast. Watch videos of the March 9 demolition: The bridge was built in 1932 between Savanna, Illinois, and Sabula, Iowa, and at 20 feet wide was too narrow to handle wider vehicles that often overlapped the center line. […]
March 14, 2018
Roadbuilding
Implosion demolishes final two piers of old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
On November 11, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) imploded the last two remaining piers (E17 and E18) of the 13 marine foundations that were part of the original east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, NBC Bay Area reports. “It went well, it went according to plan,” Alejandro Lopez of Caltrans told the […]
November 28, 2017
Roadbuilding
Drone captures implosion of N.Y.’s old Cohoes-Waterford Bridge piers
All traffic was halted on the Cohoes-Waterford Bridge on October 5 as workers imploded the six piers from the old bridge, timesunion.com reports. The bridge carries vehicles on Route 32 over the Mohawk River in New York. The New York State Department of Transportation recorded the implosion from different angles with a couple of cameras and […]
October 16, 2017
Roadbuilding
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge celebrates 80th birthday
The Bay Bridge celebrated its 80th birthday on Saturday, Nov. 12. According to a report from SF Gate, construction of the $77 million project began July 9, 1933 and was completed in 1936. Prior to its completion, ferries carried Bay Area residents between Oakland and San Francisco, with an estimated 46 million passengers in 1928 alone. More recently, the eastern span […]
November 16, 2016
Roadbuilding
Tidy explosion drops Pittsburgh’s century-old Hulton Bridge into Allegheny River
A Pennsylvania bridge with more than a century of history was demolished Tuesday morning with more than 500 explosives above the Allegheny River. The Hulton Bridge connected the eastern Pittsburgh suburbs of Oakmont and Harmarville for 107 years, but the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that it was time to make way for the new bridge in part of a $66 million project. […]
January 27, 2016
Construction Equipment
1,100 pounds of dynamite fails to bring down Vegas hotel, ruins demo firm’s perfect record
With hundreds of spectators gathered and even a couple of showgirls in attendance, when it came time for the Clarion Hotel in Las Vegas to perform its final number, a bit of stage fright set in. Despite 1,100 pounds of dynamite and 24 explosive charges, when all the dust settled, the elevator shaft of the […]
February 23, 2015
Construction Equipment
Slow motion implosion of Houston department store
Built in 1945, the life of the downtown Houston Macy’s department store came to an explosive end on Monday. According to KHOU 11, the implosion had been planned for nine months with nearby buildings taking safety precautions and rail service to the area suspended since Friday last week. Judging by some of the photos and […]
September 24, 2013
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