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Table of Contents ........4 Truck & Trailer Section .. ..............................63-67 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section 71-93 Parts Section ....110-111 Auction Section117-136 Business Calendar....126 Advertisers Index ....134
9/11 Museum to Offer Raw Experience By Ula Ilnytzky
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK (AP) The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 ft. (21 m) below ground, a Photo courtesy cavernous space that provides an emotionally NYC Environmental Protection raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge Inside the concrete tunnel forms surviving remnants and spatial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once was the World Trade Center. The museum’s architects, director and two victims’ family members led members of the news media Aug. 10 on a tour of the subterranean space, which commemorates nearly 3,000 people who died in the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks. There are no display cabinets yet, no bedrock and building a tube in the tunnel using exhibits. It is still a construction site. But it By Giles Lambertson millions of cubic feet of concrete so the city of 8.3 was easy to visualize the intent of the spaces, CEG CORRESPONDENT million people will have an insurance policy clearly articulated by the acute voids created It only required 40 years, but massive tunnel- against failure of two older subterranean water by the fallen towers. Authentic structural elements that survived ing deep beneath New York City for a vital new lines. “This project represents one of the most signifthe terrorist attacks are there: the slurry wall water-carrying conduit is nearing completion. A that kept the Hudson River from inundating whale-sized digging machine, some tough con- icant investments in the future of the city’s drinkthe Financial District, the last column of trade struction workers and megatons of concrete have ing water system,” said Cas Holloway, the city’s environmental protection commissioner. His center steel ceremonially removed from the done the job. The $6 billion dig — the city’s largest capital remarks came in May at the conclusion of the site in 2002; the survivors’ staircase that served as an escape route for hundreds; and project ever — involves tunneling out miles of see TUNNEL page 24 foundational box columns that anchored the building. The slurry wall, still in place and measuring 60 by 60 ft. (18 by 18 m), and the other huge artifacts define the museum’s design. raise already excessive federal spending. Many conBy Darlene Superville The $45 million museum occu- ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER gressional Democrats also are likely to be reluctant pies about 120,000 sq. ft. (11,148 sq to boost expenditures and increase federal deficits m) beneath the 8-acre (3.2-ha) MILWAUKEE (AP) President Barack Obama just weeks before elections that will determine conmemorial plaza, the centerpiece of rolled out a long-term jobs program Sept. 6 that trol of Congress. which is “Reflecting Absence,” two would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways A spokesman of Senate Majority Leader Harry square reflecting pools set above the and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign- Reid, Jim Manley, cautioned, “If we are going to get footprints of the north and south season assault on Republicans for causing anything done, Republican cooperation, which has towers. been all but non-existent recently, will be necessary.” Americans’ hard economic times. If the museum were above grade, That left the plan with low odds of becoming law Republican leaders instantly assailed Obama’s proposal as an ineffective one that would simply see PLAN page 22 see MUSEUM page 22
Digging Deep to Keep the Water Flowing Through NYC
Obama Promotes $50B Jobs Plan