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10-26-2009, 08:10 PM
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| Picky Fab'r/Acetal Junky   Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Arizona Desert/AJ
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|  Cool pics of Hoover Dam bypass
A buddy of mines wife is an engineer for SRP (Salt River Project power company for you easterners  ) and forwarded these pretty sweet aerial shots to me. I guess SRP is involved in some of the power generation activities going on there. This is the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge they've been working on to get traffic off the dam.       |
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10-26-2009, 08:13 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Castle Rock, WA
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Cool pictures. I drove over the dam back in 2004 and remember seeing the construction and thinking, "Are they going across that gap?".
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10-26-2009, 08:16 PM
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| Ultimate RC Decals  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: San Antonio
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cool pics!! we were there back in '05 and all that you can see that gave clues that this was going to happen was the new highway getting cut through the mountain side. |
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10-26-2009, 08:17 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: BV
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Wow, those are awesome. I always wonder how they manage to make the two halves meet up in the middle. If you screwed up even just a little at the beginning they could be off by feet by the time you get to the middle. They can do that, but they can't pave smooth roads anywhere  |
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10-26-2009, 08:20 PM
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| Picky Fab'r/Acetal Junky Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Arizona Desert/AJ
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Looking at what stage it's at...I figured they are waiting till some kind of special celebration on site to put that last piece in the center. Something where the big-wigs with shiny clean white hardhats get to break a bottle of bubbly on the new arch or something along those lines...  |
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10-27-2009, 02:34 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: behind the wheel of a monster truck...
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That is one sick bridge for sure..As an Ironworker I have some serious respect for what they done..Engineering masterpiece!!
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10-27-2009, 11:19 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: FOUR 8 OH
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10-27-2009, 11:31 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Great Britain
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So where's megatron? :?
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10-27-2009, 11:36 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Memphis
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Thanks for the pics! I love stuff like this.
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10-27-2009, 12:54 PM
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| SORRCA Committee Member   Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Parkston, SD
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I seen a show on this a few years ago when they were just starting. It was on one of the science channels. Very cool!
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