MKT Bridge #13

MKT Bridge #13 has come along very well, even with the extreme cold, snow and wet winter we have had. Nevertheless, the end bents, bridge deck beams and guardrails have all been poured, set and bolted together. The approaches for the bridge are the next stage to this project and will not be installed until bridge #12 in substantially complete. At that point Houf Construction will remove the temporary access road across the un-named tributary at bridge #13 and will adaptively re-use that rock to harden off the embankments and fill in the voids of the approaches. Some of the 'adaptive re-use' of the temporary road will be used to improve the quality of the base for the trail as it meanders from the old railroad bed and heads west toward the Scott tunnel.