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February 20, 2005:Bridging the Channel Gap

This week, (actually Friday night and Saturday morning) the north and south center edge girders were erected. With your best imagination, you can see the splice plate and vertical stiffener

To help your imagination, here are the spliced girders at the Navy Yard (Jan 26)

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