Sheila Capetta – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu August 15, 2019
Rockbusters Hosts 2019 Antique Show
President Ted Valpey's operational 1928 Wilford Universal power shovel. Northeast Rockbusters, the New England chapter of the Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA), hosted its annual Antique Construction Equipment Show in Concord, N.H., Aug....
By Cindy Riley - Fri July 19, 2019
Preserving Arlington Memorial Bridge
As one of the largest transportation projects in National Park Service history, the rehabilitation of Arlington Memorial Bridge will dramatically improve the ceremonial entrance to the nation's capitol....
AASHTO Journal - Wed July 17, 2019
Highway History: The Army's 1919 Cross-Country Convoy
One hundred years ago this month, a U.S. Army convoy consisting of 81 vehicles, 24 officers, and 258 enlisted men set out on a 3,251-mi. transcontinental journey, primarily as a way to test the ability of the military to move great distances over roads under wartime conditions....
Craig Mongeau - CEG Editor in Chief - Mon July 08, 2019
State Line Machine Treats Customers, Friends to History
State Line Machine held an open house June 23, 2019, on the property of the company's founder, Fulton S. Owensby Sr., in Middletown, Del. The company, based in Wilmington, Del., started in 1962 when Fulton J....
Edgar A. Browning – Special to CEG - Mon July 08, 2019
Looking Back: Slattery Helps Build Connecticut Turnpike
Slattery Contracting Corp. of Maspeth, N.Y., was awarded Connecticut Turnpike Contract No. 302- 02 in Greenwich, Conn. for $7,269,353. The project began at the N.Y. state line and extended east for 3.8 mi....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon June 24, 2019
Former Walter Reed Campus Undergoes Historic Renovation
At the end of November in Washington, D.C., Children's National Health System began work on a historical renovation construction project that will result in a pediatric research and innovation campus with a focus on pediatric medicine....
Brady McCombs – Associated Press - Tue June 04, 2019
Utah Celebrates Transcontinental Railroad Anniversary
PROMONTORY, Utah (AP) Music, bells and cannon fire rang out May 10 at a remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago, uniting a nation long separated by vast expanses of desert, mountains and forests and fresh off the Civil War....
Sheila Capetta – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu May 23, 2019
Foley Engines Celebrates More Than a Century in Business
Foley Engines, North America's oldest engine distributor, is celebrating its 103rd anniversary in 2019. The family-founded and operated company, opened in 1916 by Bill Foley, is now in its third generation of family operation, with Jay Foley, grandson of Bill, serving as the current president and CEO of the company....
AASHTO Journal - Tue May 14, 2019
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the First Transcontinental Railroad
The competition of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States – originally called the Pacific Railroad – officially occurred on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit in what was then the Territory of Utah when the tracks of the eastbound Central Pacific Railroad joined those of the westward Union Pacific Railroad....
Edgar A. Browning – Special to CEG - Mon May 13, 2019
Looking Back — Clement Brothers Company Inc. Builds Carter Dam
Clement Brothers Company Inc. of Hickory, N.C., held a $15.4 million contract to construct the Corps of Engineers Carter Dam Project in Murry County, Ga. The dam is 445 ft. high, then the highest dam east of the Mississippi River, and 2,050 ft....
