Uncredited photos on this page taken by: Nathan Holth and Luke Gordon. Unless stated in a caption, all photos are Copyright with All Rights Reserved. Learn about reuse of our photos.
Photo Credit: All photos on this page were taken by Tom LaPrise, to whom thanks are due for taking the time to visit and photograph the project periodically, providing this comprehensive photo collection.
November 30, 2014
View of bridge, pier construction visible.
Work at bridge, which included construction of new concrete substructure.
March 22, 2015
Replacement girder superstructure has arrived on-site.
July 27, 2015
Deck removal.
Removed bracing.
Cutting bracing off.
July 28, 2015
The southern span has been removed.
Deck removed from another span.
July 29, 2015
The northern span has been removed.
The remaining center span.
Cutting the deck out.
Deck section lifted out.
New substructure.
Near bearing is installed on substructure.
July 30, 2015
Pier demolition.
New abutment, a precast section is lowered in place.
New span installed.
July 31, 2015
Truss span on the ground.
Views of new spans.
Details of new spans.
Ballast hauled in.
Cranes have set a span.
Bolting new span in place.
New track segments and stone.
Remains of old substructure.
Concrete fabricators.
August 2, 2015
Old rail sections and connecting plates that were set off to the side, with various mill marks/stamps: rail from Illinois Steel from 1923-24, one rail from Inland from 1923, and connecting plates from Illinois (1923), B.S. Co. (Bethlehem, dated 1948), and one (with no year) from Carnegie.
New bridge overview.
New bridge details.
Remains of old substructure.
August 4, 2015
A historic truss is turned into scrap metal.
August 6, 2015
Spans on the ground.
Once a historic bridge. Now a pile of scrap metal, being trucked to the scrapyard.
August 19, 2015
The last span is cut up for scrap.
August 20, 2015
The last remnants of Michigan's historic pin-connected Baltimore truss bridge.
Overview of where the bridge was cut up.
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