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Milton-Madison Bridge

Sliding out an old bridge's structure out in one fell swoop.
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Longest Truss Slide in History Courtesy Milton Madison Bridge
Video: See Timelapse Footage Of The Milton-Madison Bridge Moving

When engineers at the firm Buckland & Taylor set out to replace the 2,430-foot-long trusses on the 83-year-old Milton-Madison Bridge over the Ohio River, they decided to slide the structures in one move. Some of the 15,260-ton steel mass will be prefabricated, and the rest erected on temporary piers. Eight strand jacks will nudge the whole thing across sliding girders until it comes to rest, a day later, atop the bridge’s reinforced pylons 55 feet away.

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