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Dance floor at Twin Sisters Dance Hall, Blanco, Texas

Twin Sisters Dance Hall

Dark, rainy, and a bit cold as we turned from the eighty-mile-an-hour US 281 onto a one lane horse and ...
National Gallery of Art, Washinton DC, 2024

I-Beam Washington DC

Walking along Pennsylvania Avenue near 10th Street in Washington DC, I saw protruding from a bed of gravel a structural ...
US-75 Bridge spanning West Central Ave on approach to Mackinac Bridge, Mackinaw City, Michigan

In Awe of This Experience

June 1956: President Eisenhower signs into law the Federal Aid Highway Act, and the construction of the Michigan’s Interstate Highway ...
August 20, 2024, Michigan Department of Transportation Bureau of Bridges and Structures Presentation

MDOT Bureau of Bridges and Structures Presentation

Kyle C. Kopper, P.E., Chief Structure Design Engineer, a long-time subscriber to the Iron & Steel Preservation Chronicle, invited me ...
MDOT Field Rivet Demonstration with a Boyer pneumatic field rivet hammer at Lansing Community College

MDOT Field Rivet Demonstration

Michigan Department of Transportation personnel participated in a Field Rivet Demonstration with a Boyer pneumatic field rivet hammer at Lansing ...