Workmen applying asphaltic binder coat on westbound lane of the Poplar Street Bridge Wednesday. Lane at left still has only epoxy coating and layer of grit.
Steel is being erected for the superstructure of the first of the two new Jefferson Barracks bridges. This view is looking east across the Mississippi River from near the old bridge in South St. Louis County.
The westbound span (near the camera), the first of two new Jefferson Barracks Bridges, is approaching completion and may be opened this December, the Illinois Department of Transportation reported.
Giant piers jut from the Mississippi River where the roadway will be built for the first span of the new twin Jefferson Barracks bridges south of St. Louis.
Swinging in a cage from a barge-mounted crane, workman delivers rebars to steelworkers building reinforcement for one of the major piers inside a cofferdam sunk in the river to bedrock. Bargeload of preformed rebars and work-boat can also be seen in the photo.
The new Lindbergh bridge, which will cross the Mississippi River at Jefferson Barracks, is already in place as work is being rushed on the $2,600,000 structure designed to link the military view down stream, the span, seemingly is balanced in perilous fashion on one of the piers.
Concrete supports stretch westward toward the Mississippi River as construction continues on the new Jefferson Barracks bridge being built north of Columbia. The bridge will replace the current structure and connect with the Interstate 270 bypass, which will extend to Interstate 55-70 at Collinsville.
Concrete piers for the westbound span of the new Jefferson Barracks double-span bridges rise below and beside the existing bridge. The old two-lane bridge across the Mississippi River south of St. Louis eventually will be razed.
A fire on the old Jefferson Barracks Bridge (right) forced the temporary closing of two lanes on the adjacent new bridge Wednesday. The fire broke out when workers' torches ignited railroad ties.
A flatbed trailer stacked with construction material waits for the Mississippi River to recede further Friday. This photograph was taken from the Illinois side of the river.
Construction workers unload lumber for a catwalk around the substructure of a span of the new Jefferson Barracks bridge being built over the Mississippi River near Columbia.