(Building The George Washington Bridge)

Work crews will feverishly make room for the new anchorages and approaches that will be installed.

A different crew will begin preparations for erecting the two towers.

Crane operators will clear the way for the tower foundations.

Skilled craftsmen will install steel bars in the anchorage pits to which the main bridge cables can be connected.

Finally these pits are filled with concrete.

The bridge towers rise from the water to stand guard over their new home.

Experienced Steelworkers will lay steel reinforcement ribs over the anchorage pits, providing a base over which the roadway and toll booths can be put into place.

The meticulous work of attaching one end of a footbridge cable to an anchorage, and send a barge across the Hudson River with the other end begins.

Bridge workers will connect the other end of the footbridge rope to the other anchorage, and hoist it to the top of the towers.

They will repeat this process until the cables for the footbridge are safely and securely in place.

Afterwards the work crews will affix the footbridge sections to the cables.

Experienced Bridge builders and Engineers shift into high gear to begin preparations for the spinning on the wire rope cable for the bridge's main span.

Like a spider spinning its web, experts will create the wire rope cables and connect the strands from one anchorage to the other.

Precision is the key as the bridge builders link the strands to the anchorages.

An adjustment, here and an adjustment there, and the cables are set in place.

Squeezing gangs begin the work of compacting the strands into a perfect cylinder of cable.

Work crews dismantle the footbridge and its cable.

Skilled workers install the cable bands on the completed main cables.

Stringers weave the suspenders from the cables.

Steelworkers attach the stiffening trusses to the suspenders.

Road crews lay the steel flooring.

And the finishing touches create a finished roadway.

The Suspension Bridge is now a reality.