Since the start of the replacement of the Lake Champlain Bridge, the NYSDOT has had an EarthCam WebCam focused on the bridge construction, so the public could watch the construction progressed. EarthCam allows one to either link or download the individual web cam images, snapped every five minutes, so I thought it would be interesting to put together an essay containing pictures of the bridge construction, every hour.

Friday, August 26, 2011, was a particularly interesting day, as that was the day the lifted the central archway on the Lake Champlain Bridge. A full-day project, it shows the bridge without the central archway in the morning, and by 9 PM the same night, full hoisted into place. The pictures are quite remarkable and beautiful to say the least.

5 AM.

6 AM.

7 AM.

8 AM.

9 AM.

10 AM.

11 AM.

12 Noon.

1 PM.

2 PM.

3 PM.

4 PM.

5 PM.

6 PM.

7 PM.

8 PM.

9 PM.