Building the Ravenel Bridge


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
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April 30, 2005

Paving

Paving continues, albeit at a slow pace due to weather delays. Here are a couple of photos to give some idea of the scale and progress.

Looking west at the Bidwell machine that spans the inner north lane.

Looking east at the nothern outer and inner lanes.

Paving the southern lanes

Looking west. You can see the rails bounding the inner southern lane that the Bidwell machine rides on

Here is the outer southern lane, about 25% complete

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C. Frank Starmer

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