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Wes Julian uses a Northwest 80-D shovel to load a LeTourneau C Tournarocker aka “water duck.” The operator of a Lima dragline loads a White ten wheeler in the background. The dam contract included re-channelization, widening and deepening of 8,150 ft. (2,484.1 m) of the Blackstone River.
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Edgar A. Browning has lived an eventful life. As a child, he was fascinated with construction equipment, but became a soldier, and later a top cop, who started his own part-time construction business. Then he became an industry author who is now connecting vintage heavy iron construction equipment enthusiasts around the world with a simple click of a mouse. Browning was born and raised in New England, specifically, Woonsocket, R.I., an old FrenchCanadian mill town bisected by the meandering Blackstone River. The river had once provided power for the many textile mills. In August 1955, the city was ravaged by a devastating flood due to heavy rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Diane. The water treatment plant was compromised by the floodwaters.
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Ogunquit Launches $13.5M Projects to Reconstruct Road, Build Bridges AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A $13.5 million project to reconstruct the primary road in Ogunquit and build two new bridges is getting under way. Maine Department of Transportation officials say construction work in the coastal Southern Maine town will begin early in March. They hope to finish by December 2016. Construction on Route 1 will be put on hold from June
18 through Labor Day so the town can accommodate the thousands of tourists who visit every summer. Temporary bridges will be used to keep traffic moving, allowing workers to continue construction of the new bridges over the Ogunquit and Josias rivers at that time. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)