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Like a mammoth erector set operation, this huge swing span section, pivoted in the middle, will be the sturdy roadbed support to » carry vehicular traffic over the $9 million Yorktown Bridge now under construction. This member, resting on its side, swings to permit largest U. S. warships to pass up York River. Jt will be the world’s longest highway swinp span. Here at U. S. Steel’s Virginia Bridge Company's Roanoke shops, workmen make certain all structural members fit with precision. Dismantled, it will'be shipped to bridge site. Arrow points to workmen, dwarfed by 500-foot length of span, which, If raised vertically would rival the Washington Monument in height. The new bridge is scheduled .for completion in early 1952 and will be the largest iingle project by the Ytoinia Department of Highways. ;v
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