After all the photos I took, I've tried to arrange them in some order based on various topics I found interesting.
And a reminder from T.S. Eliot (East Coker from the Four Quartets)
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion
2004-01-01
Overview and links: Cable Stay Bridges
2004-05-09
My first bicycle adventure to get a closer look
2004-05-15
Adding shark-fin edge girders
2004-05-23
Lateral tendons and the elevator
2004-06-06
Lateral tendons
2004-06-27
Progress as seen from my bicycle
2004-07-04
Counterweights as the mainspan grows
2004-07-08
Hurricane cables
2004-07-11
Adding floor girders
2004-07-21
Freyssinet: Building a stay cable
2004-08-01
Hurricane cables and a possible test
2004-08-08
Building the 7th set of stay cables
2004-08-22
Building the 8th set of stay cables
2004-08-29
Dreding the channel
2004-09-01
Placing the final triple shark fin girder
2004-09-12
Stay cables and Hurricane anchors
2004-09-19
East and West approach piers
2004-09-25
Capping piers and extending the main span
2004-10-03
Capping the east pier
2004-10-17
Adding the triple fin girder on the east back span
2004-10-29
A visit to High Steel, Lancaster Pa.
2004-11-01
Closing the gap between the west backspan and west approach
2004-11-14
X marks the spot
2004-12-12
Joining the east approach to the east backspan
2004-12-12
Morning sun
2004-12-16
Night work on the main span
2004-12-19
God's early monring sun kisses our new bridge
2005-01-23
One more edge girder to go!
2005-01-26
High Steel: Drilling and reaming the last splice plate
2005-02-04
Sandblasting the towers
2005-02-13
Last edge girder gap
2005-02-19
Marvin and Lori: Bridge workers will do anything to be first to cross the gap
2005-02-23
The last gap - North and South sides
2005-02-23
Phillip and the Last Dinosaur Standing
2005-03-05
Hydraulic jacks and moving the bridge
2005-03-06
Early morning work on the traveler
2005-03-08
Freyssinet injecting cables
2005-03-08
Installing the last splice plate
2005-03-10
Unbuilding the west tower crane
2005-03-10
Installing floor panels
2005-03-12
Pouring the last concrete
2005-03-19
Main span curvature
2005-04-08
Ungrowing the east tower crane
2005-04-12
Ungrowing the east tower crane
2005-04-23
The curvature of the main and back spans
2005-04-30
The traveler - a ride under the bridge
2005-05-16
Wind dynamics over the diamond towers
2005-06-10
Final painting of the anchors
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C. Frank Starmer