The spans across the channel are obviously steel girders. I can't tell if the spans over the flood plain are concrete girders.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
1887 O&StCV/CN/CP/SOO/WC Bridge over St. Croix River not near Osceola, WI
(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; Satellite)
O&StCV = Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway
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| Redeker Rail Video & Photography 0:39 video SOO Line GP7 crosses the St.Croix River on the Osceola & St.Croix Valley Railway. 9/11/2023 Terry Redeker shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Terry's share https://maps.app.goo.gl/kiNrz5LQgp4frnGh9 |
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| David Zeman Photography posted GN #325 (EMD SDP40) heads east over the St. Croix River with its matching trainset near Osceola, WI. 9/13/2023 Tim Shanahan shared Dave Zeman shared |
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| trains, Steve Glischinski 2008 photo CN still owns the tracks. The truss span of this 1887 bridge used to pivot. The bridge is 675' (206m) long. |
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1992 Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway
Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway is a tourist railroad that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) and the Osceola Historical Society. It runs excursion trains from Osceola, WI, to Marine on St Croix, MN, and to Dresser, WI. It also has operating rights to Withrow, MN, which it uses for special trains throughout the season. [4:28 video]
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| Redeker Rail Video & Photography 0:39 video SOO Line GP7 crosses the St.Croix River on the Osceola & St.Croix Valley Railway. 9/11/2023 Terry Redeker shared |
At least one exhibition train includes a demonstration of a RPO snagging a mailbag.
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The railroad has preserved freight cars as well as passenger cars. And some train rides cross the St. Croix River on this 1887 swing bridge, which no longer swings.
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Winthrow is in the lower-left corner and Dresser is in the upper-right cornfer. Saint Croix is now Marine on St. Croix.
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Sunday, August 28, 2022
1951,1987-89,2015,2018-20 Martin Luther King Bridge over Mississippi River at St. Louis
(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; John A. Weeks III; 3D Satellite)
The original name of this bridge was Veterans Memorial.
Charles A. Ellis was one of the designers of the bridge until he died in 1949. Ellis was effectively the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. But Richard B. Strauss, the Chief Engineer of record, stole all of the credit for the design from Ellis. [HistoricBridges, Dennis DeBruler]
HistoricBridges calls the length of the main span, 962', technologically significant. JohnWeeks elaborates that "it was the 6th longest cantilevered truss bridge in the US, and the largest cantilevered truss bridge over the Mississippi River."
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This bridge carried US-40 and US-66 from 1955 until 1967 when the Popular Street Interstate Bridge opened. So US-66 must have moved from the Chain of Rocks Bridge to this bridge in 1955.
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| Redeker Rail Video & Photography posted Glad I was able to grab a shot of the Terminal 101 Job detouring over the high line along the Mississippi River through Lacledes Landing in St.Louis on Wednesday. After a long day that started in Humbolt, Tennessee with a failed attempt at the CSX OCS (ran 2 hours early before sunrise) and included TigerTail deliveries to 4 stores in Illinois, I was very pleased to catch a TRRA Job in great afternoon light running the high line due to the final bridge span being replaced on its normal route over the Merchants Bridge. The huge cut of double stacks was interesting to see on this job which I assume were destined for the NS. After the shot had time to grab some Ted Drew’s and make it back to Memphis before midnight, lol. 8/24/2022 Terry Redeker shared Dennis DeBruler: Thanks for framing this shot with the Martin Luther King Bridge. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4... |
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| Stupp Brothers Photo via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) |
Charles A. Ellis was one of the designers of the bridge until he died in 1949. Ellis was effectively the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. But Richard B. Strauss, the Chief Engineer of record, stole all of the credit for the design from Ellis. [HistoricBridges, Dennis DeBruler]
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| Postcard via BridgeHunter [The Eads Bridge is in the background.] |
Every link that I found that went to St. Louis Post-Dispatch was either broken or behind a paywall. Fortunately, John Weeks explains "The Illinois DOT plans to close the MLK bridge between October 12, 2009, and October 24, 2009, to make safety repairs to the MLK bridge. The narrow lanes and the lack of a divider has lead to 38 serious accidents between 2003 and 2009. The bridge will be reconfigured for 2 lanes heading east into Illinois, and one lane heading west into Saint Louis. Converting the bridge to 3 lanes will allow the lanes to be a bit wider and allow for a center divider to be installed." John also found a traffic count for 2003 of 31,800.
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| Street View, Oct 2007 [Note that the semi is over the white line!] |
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I was surprised that the 10 street views between 2007 and 2022 showed very light traffic on the bridge. Then it occurred to me that the street view drivers probably avoid the rush hours. Also, the opening of the Stan Musial Bridge in 2014 reduced the daily count from 23,000 to 12,000. [stlpublicradio]
At first, I was surprised that the barrier wasn't movable so that the direction of the 2-lane traffic could be changed between rush hours. I've seen that on other bridges. But when I looked at a satellite map, I realized that the eastbound lanes terminate on an Interstate highway, which can handle the traffic, whereas the westbound lane terminates on downtown streets, which can't handle the traffic.
The main reason the bridge was closed in Aug 2018 was for a $24.3m replacement of the approach bridge on the Illinois side. The bridge was to reopen in fall 2019. It is a shame this this work wasn't coordinated with the $16m repairs of the bridge itself for six months in 2015. [stlpublicradio] Not overlapping the two outages was especially bad because the opening for the Illinois repairs were delayed until summer 2020 because of the Mississippi floods in 2019. [wsiltv] This page describes the 2015 work, and this page described the 2018-20 work.
Monday, August 23, 2021
1934 PAL/ICG/IC Big Clifty Bridge over Clifty Creek near Big Clifty, KY
(Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)
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| Jim Pearson Photography posted Paducah and Louisville Railway loaded coal at Big Clifty, Kentucky Paducah and Louisville University of Kentucky locomotives 4522 and 2012 lead the Louisville Gas & Electric loaded coal train across the trestle at Big Clifty, Kentucky as it heads north along highway 62 on its way to the Louisville Gas and Electric power plant in the Kosmosdale neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. According to their website: “The Mill Creek Generation Station is LG&E’s largest coal-fired power plant, with a generating capacity of 1,465 megawatts. Mill Creek sits on 544 acres in southwest Jefferson County, Ky. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw an unprecedented increase in the construction of new industrial, commercial, and residential facilities in the Louisville area. As customers’ demand for energy increased, LG&E needed additional generating capability to guarantee supply and ensure reliability. Mill Creek began commercial operation in 1972 to meet this growing demand.” Tech Info: Wide Photo: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 100, August 17, 2021. Jim Pearson Photography Lisa Ann Keown Absolutely beautiful !! I've lived near this bridge my entire life and always wondered how it looked from above.  This bridge was built in 1934. It is 920' 6" long and sits 128 feet above Clifty Hollow! This is how the town of Big Clifty was born. |
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| Redeker Rail Video & Photography posted Was finally able to grab a shot I have been after for a while on the Clifty Creek trestle on the Paducah & Louisville yesterday. While working in the area the last few days I realized PAL4522 (UofK Basketball Championships Unit) would lead coal loads from McHenery Mine to Louisville Gas & Electrics plant near Kosmodale ( just outside Louisville). On top of that it was a cloudy day which would make a shot possible otherwise it would be extremely backlit when it crossed the trestle heading Railroad north(eastbound) around 2pm.. LG1 (assuming that’s the correct symbol) with PAL4522 on the point leads coal loads across the Clifty Creek trestle between Clarkson and Big Clifty Kentucky on September 15th 2021. Terry Redeker shared |
Most of the towers are hidden by trees. In this example. the girders across the towers are as deep as the longer girders between towers.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
CSX/L&N Trestle over Upper Howard Creek in Clark Country, KY
(Bridge Hunter; Satellite)
The south end of this trestle is curved.
Three of the sixteen photos posted by Redeker Rail Video & Photography of the Kentucky Steam Heartage's C&O 2716 Heritage Highball move from Lexington to near Ravenna, KY.
The south end of this trestle is curved.
Three of the sixteen photos posted by Redeker Rail Video & Photography of the Kentucky Steam Heartage's C&O 2716 Heritage Highball move from Lexington to near Ravenna, KY.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
NS+CSX Bridge over the Tennessee River (Watts Bar Lake) in Loudon, TN
(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)
Four of the ten photos posted by Redeker Rail Video & Photography with the comment:
Terry Redeker shared
"The bridge is noted for its very long [375'] simple truss span." It is relatively modern because it uses bolts instead of rivets and rolled beams instead of built-up lattice truss members. [HistoricBridges]
Great day around the Chattanooga area yesterday with Alex Minahan. I had some work to take care of and wanted to get NS 8025 the Monongahela on NS 202 so it was worth the 10 hour round trip from Memphis. Also finally got my 1st drone shot of TennBridge and spent some time around Nickajack Lake with the drone for the first time as well. We did have to drive up to the Tennessee River bridge in Loudon, TN on the NS Knoxville District to get the 8025 in good light but it was worth it!! Only 2 NS Heritage units remaining for me now; NYC & PC leading in good light!! 4/4/2020Terry Redeker shared
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Marty Bernard posted seven photos with the comment: "6 photos of two different Norfolk Southern trains on Tennessee River Bridge at Loudon, TN circa 1990, Karl Miller photos. Photo 7 is at the Loudon station."
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's share At first, I could not figure out why they had a big new pier holding up two short girder spans. Then when I looked at a contemporary view, it became obvious. Karl caught them building a longer span that replaced the previous span and its support pier. The longer span uses the new pier for support. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4... |
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| Martha Carver from BridgeHunter-lost [The 1929 truss was replaced in 2004. The replacement is just two lanes; but, I assume, it has compliant lane and shoulder widths.] |
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Biloxi Bay Bridges at Ocean Springs, MS
CSX/L&N: (Bridge Hunter; Satellite)
I was thinking that wind and waves determined the required lateral force resistance. But vessel collisions are a larger source of lateral forces. If I read the article correctly, the lateral forces, not the axial forces, determine the size and number of piles that are needed on a pier's footing. The pile testing done by Don Brown was performed during the bidding process so that the design/build team had the data they needed to do their jobs as soon as they got the proceed notice.
Fred Hudgens provided these two photos on a post and the comment: "Massman construction 4600s3 ringer 600 ton capacity 220 ft of boom .mounted on a barge."
Keith Agerton Boy I spent a many a day working on that Rig Biloxi Bay bridge for Massman,Kiewit, Traylor JV think it was GC constructors
Fred Hudgens Triangle boom it's called heavy lift boom I will post the boom # Monday
Fred Hudgens As far as I know it's the only Manitowoc crane that uses it .
Ben Stalvey #37 boom is Triangle on a 4600 series 3
Ben Stalvey 80ft rear mast
Jay Wilson Triangle booms on the B-E machines were charged with air or gas, if they lost pressure, there was a crack.
Pat Peterson they use argon now to control rust on the inside.
One of the advantages of construction work done in the 21st Century is that we can use Global Earth as a time machine. I left out quite a few of the images because there were a lot during which there was no change. And this is the first time I've seen more than one image in the same month. And it happened twice during the years of interest.
I chose this "before" image because it shows ships going through both bridges.
Aug 2005 is when Katrina happened. Note that most of the bridge now looks like a "dotted line." That means most of the spans were just above the storm surge. Also note that both ends of the railroad bridge have been displaced downstream. The storm surge is more powerful at the end of the storm when it is flowing back out to the ocean. I started including the bridge over the CSX track in the upper-right corner because that was part of the reconstruction contract.
The railroad bridge is repaired. They are not even cleaning up debris for the US-90 bridge.
What is the "white stripe" downstream of the bridge?
Now they have cleaned up most of the debris.
Is that white stripe a sandbar that comes and goes as the tide changes?
I can't believe the progress they made in a fraction of a month.
This looks like a repeat of the above image to me. I've clicked through the timeline several times and I believe I have captured the dates correctly.
The initial lanes are done and they have started on the second 1.6 mile bridge.
After four images in two months, we skip a year until the next image. It looks like it is done.
I include the next available "done" image because it doesn't have the clouds.
Massman's project web page contains five photos with the comment:
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1962 US-90: (destroyed by Huricane Katrina in Aug 2005)
2008 US-90: (Bridge Hunter; Satellite)
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| Redeker Rail Video & Photography posted Bucket List shot of the week. While working the Mississippi Gulf Coast & practicing my social distancing this week I was finally able to get the shot of a CSX train on the Biloxi Bay Bridge! Here we see Tran Q601 crossing the Biloxi Bay on April 1st 2020.. Terry Redeker shared |
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At first, I thought Street View still had photos from the old bridge. But I guess they really did build with some nice looking railings in the new bridge.
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| Jordan Douglass Barclay posted L&N train crossing back bay Ocean Springs Mississippi dated 1901. From the Library of Congress collection |
The Bridge Destroyed by Katrina
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Pre-opening 1962
(Courtesy of Elaine Ryan Miller)
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| OceanSpringArchives [It looks like the drawbridge was the Chicago trunnion style.]
Hurricane Camille 1969
After Hurricane Camille in August 1969, the L&N Railroad commenced a passenger shuttle service between Pascagoula and Gulfport to alleviate automobile traffic resulting from the damage to the US Highway 90 Bridge across the Bay of Biloxi. There were passenger stops at Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Keesler AFB, Beauvoir, and Mississippi City. The cost was $.50 per trip. The temporary rail service was terminated on September 19, 1969, after bridge traffic commenced on US 90 across Biloxi Bay.(The Ocean Springs Record, September 11, 1969, p. 1 and September 25, 1969, p.1)
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| OceanSpringArchives [It did not survive Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Did they have the drawbridge leaves raised during the hurricane? I would think that would make them function as sails and would be worse than leaving them down.] |
The Replacement Bridge
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| DanBrownAssociates [This was too technical for me to understand most of what this page said about exploratory and test piles. But I did learn that they do test for sideways (lateral) forces as well as downward (axial) forces.] |
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| Shane Strickland posted Biloxi Bay Bridge 2007 Shane Strickland It was a joint venture. Massman Kiewit TraylorShane Strickland Kiewitt 888 just outa re-man. Sweet sweet rig! It was my first hydro!! |
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I was thinking that wind and waves determined the required lateral force resistance. But vessel collisions are a larger source of lateral forces. If I read the article correctly, the lateral forces, not the axial forces, determine the size and number of piles that are needed on a pier's footing. The pile testing done by Don Brown was performed during the bidding process so that the design/build team had the data they needed to do their jobs as soon as they got the proceed notice.
The spans in the old bridge that had their lower cord just a foot above the storm surge were the ones that got destroyed. The waves from the storm pushed them off the piers. So the new bridge has a steep 6% grade at each end to quickly get the spans significantly above the storm surge of a 100-year storm. (Katrina was considered a 100-year storm. So the designers are assuming that climate warming won't create a 100-year storm every 10 years.) For they spans at the end of the bridge that are not above the wave action, they added 18" keys on top of the piers between the girders. These keys will help hold the spans on the piers during a storm.
[CivilEngineering]
Three of the photos on WGKengineers are below. The design-build method, a relatively new concept for MDOT, was used to finish the $339m project within two years. We have seen for other bridges that the environmental studies alone take a few years. The CSX bridge was also destroyed by Katrina. From what I saw in some photos, I first thought steel girders were used. But it turns out the girders are colored precast concrete.
The bridge is 1.6 miles long, and it is designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. [PCIgulf]
The navigation span is 250' wide with a clearance of 95'. [Traylor] But the required horizontal navigational clearance was only 150'. [CivilEngineering] So why did they overbuild by so much?
Lee Simmons posted four photos with the comment: "4600 Ringer on the Broadway st. Bridge job in Little Rock Arkansas for Massman construction..... Set up for 700 tons... Last time I ran this crane was in New Orleans on the Corps of Engineers seawall job.... I've missed this old girl !!!! Smooth like butter !!!!!"
[Massman Construction was the contractor for this project.]
Lee Simmons This is the 4600 that was in Biloxi for a while then went to New orleans for the Seawall and the Huey P. LONG bridge !!!!
Maggie Bryan-Retta Yeah I remember biloxi . great BBQ on that barge and it came to the Huey right before I went to chalmette.
Three of the photos on WGKengineers are below. The design-build method, a relatively new concept for MDOT, was used to finish the $339m project within two years. We have seen for other bridges that the environmental studies alone take a few years. The CSX bridge was also destroyed by Katrina. From what I saw in some photos, I first thought steel girders were used. But it turns out the girders are colored precast concrete.
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The navigation span is 250' wide with a clearance of 95'. [Traylor] But the required horizontal navigational clearance was only 150'. [CivilEngineering] So why did they overbuild by so much?
Lee Simmons posted four photos with the comment: "4600 Ringer on the Broadway st. Bridge job in Little Rock Arkansas for Massman construction..... Set up for 700 tons... Last time I ran this crane was in New Orleans on the Corps of Engineers seawall job.... I've missed this old girl !!!! Smooth like butter !!!!!"
[Massman Construction was the contractor for this project.]
Lee Simmons This is the 4600 that was in Biloxi for a while then went to New orleans for the Seawall and the Huey P. LONG bridge !!!!
Maggie Bryan-Retta Yeah I remember biloxi . great BBQ on that barge and it came to the Huey right before I went to chalmette.
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Keith Agerton Boy I spent a many a day working on that Rig Biloxi Bay bridge for Massman,Kiewit, Traylor JV think it was GC constructors
Fred Hudgens Triangle boom it's called heavy lift boom I will post the boom # Monday
Fred Hudgens As far as I know it's the only Manitowoc crane that uses it .
Ben Stalvey #37 boom is Triangle on a 4600 series 3
Ben Stalvey 80ft rear mast
Jay Wilson Triangle booms on the B-E machines were charged with air or gas, if they lost pressure, there was a crack.
Pat Peterson they use argon now to control rust on the inside.
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| Chris Spence posted 30 ton floor beam. 4100 tappen zee bridge ny stretched out getting that Sunday $$ local 417 Shane Strickland I ran this crane on the Biloxi Bay Bridge around 10 years ago! Traylor Brothers right? |
One of the advantages of construction work done in the 21st Century is that we can use Global Earth as a time machine. I left out quite a few of the images because there were a lot during which there was no change. And this is the first time I've seen more than one image in the same month. And it happened twice during the years of interest.
I chose this "before" image because it shows ships going through both bridges.
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Massman's project web page contains five photos with the comment:
This award winning design-build project for the Mississippi Department of Transportation consisted of removing and replacing the U.S. Highway 90 Bridge across Biloxi Bay, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The project included the design and construction of a 1.6-mile-long divided bridge, providing 6 lanes of traffic across the bay on a nearly parallel alignment to the old bridge. Work included the demolition and removal of the existing bridge and roadway debris. It also included the demolition and replacement of an 800-foot long bridge over the CSX Transportation Railroad and associated embankment, roadway and electrical items. In addition to the bridge scope, the project included reconstruction of the foreshore protection along the bay's shore.
This project required the use of 20 floating cranes, 6 land based cranes and an average of 240 personnel working six days a week. This large equipment fleet was mobilized quickly because the majority of equipment was owned by the joint venture partners, with much of it in the gulf coast region. The work included driving 105,000 feet of concrete piling, installing 10 million pounds of reinforcing steel, erecting 90,000 feet of precast concrete girders and placing 72,000 cubic yards of structural concrete. Waterline footings required sealing of footing forms around driven piles and dewatering of the forms to place concrete footings.
In only 17 months after contract award, soil borings, geotechnical design, bridge design, all permitting, test pile program, access dredging and complete construction of one of the bridges across the bay was complete. The project team achieved a very aggressive schedule and completed the project 45 days early. Completion of the second bridge and all associated work for final acceptance was completed just 22 months after contract award. The utilization of resources by the joint venture partners and the partnering relationship with MDOT and FHWA made this possible.
Project Awards:
2008 America's Transportation Awards - Large Project - Innovative Management
2008 Federal Highway Administration Award of Excellence - Project Management
2008 Construction Management Association of America Project Achievement Award
2009 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Award National Finalist
2009 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Honor Award
2009 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Structural Systems Honor Award
2011 Precast/Pre-stressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Award - Transportation for Main Spans Greater than 150 feet
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Massman Construction Co. posted five photos with the comment:
After being destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Highway 90 Bridge across Biloxi Bay was rebuilt by a Massman-led joint venture.
The award-winning design-build project for the
Mississippi Department of Transportation
included the design and construction of a six-lane, 1.6-mile bridge across the bay that served as a vital artery for the local and regional communities.The project required 20 floating cranes and six land-based cranes, as well as an average of 240 people working six days a week to rebuild the destroyed bridge.
The team achieved a very aggressive schedule and completed the project 45 days early, with final acceptance just 22 months after contract award. The project’s success was grounded in the strong partnering relationship with MDOT and the
Federal Highway Administration
.#BiloxiBayBridges #BiloxiBay #marineconstruction #infrastructure #MDOT #floatingcrane #hurricanekatrina
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| Ronald Boles posted 3 EMD 4axles with NB Manifest Train Biloxi Bay Mississippi 1980s. David Johnston photo |
A time lapse video of a tow going through the "very challenging" swing span running "the loop" "The loop" is coming down the Mississippi, going across the Gulf, and then going back north using the Tenn-Tom Waterway.
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