Failing Bridges...

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First a bit of follow up to the pics of the Russky Island bridge (see previous post).  There was a massive fire on the deck while construction was still progressing, most likely sparked by an incautious welder.  English-Russia has plenty of pics, but a sampling



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And a distance shot, showing the scale of both the bridge and the fire. 
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And a post-failure picture of the Tacoma Narrows bridge that I had never seen before, in a large collection of early 20th century (but going as late as WWII) failures caught on film
vintage-ancient-accident-fail-14.jpg

And from the same collection a Cuinard-line ship at the pier with an unhappy simalarity to current events
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