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New Pa. Bridge Honors Woman Lost on Sept. 11
Vo lvo CE Bre aks Ground on $100M Faci lity in Pa. …8
The Dunn Memorial Bridge rehabilitation is the first of a number of bridge and interstate road projects that will improve safety and increase travel efficiency in the downtown corridor of the state’s Capital, Albany. N.Y. Operators Proves He’s No Ordinary Cat Fan…28
New Enterprise rented a Manitowoc 200-ton (181 t) crane for beam erection, including this segment showing Span 3.
Rehab of Dunn Memorial Bridge Under Way in N.Y.
By Jennifer Rupp By Mary Reed
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Fol ey Help s Revive N. J. Recycler’s Workhorse…32
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................61-67
When the Irvona Truss Bridge (SR 53) in Clearfield County, Pa., was slated for replacement, local officials decided that in addition to building a new and improved structure, the town of Irvona would honor a local woman who perished in the Twin Towers on 9/11. Mary Ellen Tiesi was 38 when she died in the World Trade Center, South Tower. She was the only Clearfield County native to lose her life in the towers on 9/11. While Tiesi was evacuating the Towers that day, she stopped to wait for her boss who had a heart condition. After a few flights of stairs, her boss decided to take the see TIESI page 98
Recycling Section ........71-96 Attachment Section 107-111 Parts Section ..................112 Auction Section ......118-136 Business Calendar ..........126 Advertisers Index............134
An essential two-year $11.6 million rehabilitation of New York State’s Dunn Memorial Bridge got under way in June 2011. The Dunn Memorial Bridge rehabilitation is the first of a number of bridge and interstate road projects that will improve safety and increase travel efficiency in the downtown corridor of the state’s Capital, Albany. The multi-year program will feature improvements on I-787 and its environs and
includes the rehabilitation of I-787 at the Clinton Avenue viaduct in Albany and reconstruction of the southern portion of the I-787 from Exit 23 of the Thruway to the South Mall Expressway. Named after Albany native and World War I posthumous Medal of Honor awardee Private Parker F. Dunn, the bridge carries state Routes 9 and 2 across the Hudson River, linking Albany and Rensselaer, N.Y. Approximately 36,000 motorists cross the span each day. The current bridge was constructed in see DUNN page 102
Change to WTC Raises Questions Over Height By Meghan Barr ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) A change to the design of a needle that will sit atop One World Trade Center is raising questions over whether the building will still be America’s tallest when
completed. The 408-ft. (124-m) needle will no longer be enclosed in a fiberglass-and-steel enclosure called a radome, a feature that was recently removed from the original design because the building’s developer said it would be impossible to properly maintain or repair it.
Without the enclosure, it’s unclear whether the needle is an antenna or a spire — a crucial distinction in terms of measuring the building’s height. Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the see WTC page 124