Winterset has shut down operations for the winter.

On a side note: The Ice Skating rink has opened.

Winterset has spent this week loading out materials

and equipment to shut down the operations

until next April. The crane in the photo has

had it's weights removed, and the tracks moved in

in prepartion of being hauled out soon.

Guardrail on Prince Street.

Installing guardrail on Prince Street.

Removing the temporary detour abutment

10" to 12" Snow on Monday. No work.

Finishing up removing the temporary abutment.

Finishing the Prince Street slopes and resetting
the street light.

Removing the steel sheeting that made up the

temporary abutment for the detour.

Sammis retaining wall.

Winter Arrived today. No Work.

Adding Stone Fill to the Prince Street slopes.

Concrete for the retaining wall placed today.

Adding the front face form with a stone pattern
form liner so that the concrete looks like a stone wall.

Added some more drainage to prince street.

Winterset continues to excavate the inner part of
Prince Street. Drainage from main street will
discharge into this settling area inside the curve
of the road. From there an outlet pipe will drain the
water the rest of the way to the river.

Forming the retaining wall that will be along
the side of the driveway that we had to raise
along with raising the north end of the bridge.

Remove the Maybe bridge

Area prepared to roll the bridge onto.

Rolling the bridge onto to the dismantling area.

Dismantling the Maybe bridge into pieces.

Winterset continues to remove the detour.

Building a retaining wall for the side of the driveway

that is across from Cumberland Farms.

Rebuilding Prince Street

Removing the detour is the next thing to do.

Paving the second to last layer of pavement is complete,
and the bridge is open.

We will now be working on removing the temporary
bridge and rebuilding Prince Street.

The first of two lifts of pavement is being paved

today. The top lift will be paved next June.

This machine is called a cold planer. It's here to

plane the hotmix surface in the areas where the

old hotmix meets the new to create a smooth

transition.

Installing the membrane on the deck of the bridge.

The membrane is a sheet of waterproof material that

looks a lot like asphalt roof shingle. The machine

heats the asphalt material and melts the sheet to

the deck. The surface is a stone type grit to protect

asphalt material until it gets paved (Wednesday).

There is a lot going on today.

Winterset working on the final segment of Texas Rail on the abutement.

Winterset working on Cumberland Farms driveway.

Gendron working on Cumberland Farms curb and sidewalk.

AD Rossi installing the deck membrane.

Installing some of the project drainage system

on the south end of the project.

Three of the six lights were installed today.

Working on landscaping the Cumberland Farms

sidewalk area.

Working on the sidewalks on the south end
of the bridge.

Working on landscaping in front of Cumberland Farms

The Last Section of the downstream side of the
concrete bridge rail was completed. The two
end pieces that don't have window slots are still
not done

Center Pilaster of the Texas Rail.

Working on the roadway concrete sidewalk.

The bridge crew placed the 5th- 33' segment of

Concrete 'Texas Rail' today, one more and the

right side will be done.

working on the 'rubbing' part of the Texas Rail.
This is an all day process for four people to hand
rub the day old concrete to remove the bubbles
and imperfections for a 33' section.

We still have to keep the rail wet during the
rubbing process. One guy spends the day moving
around burlap and keeping the uncovered portions wet.

The rest of the crew continues to form the
upcoming rail segments. The roadway crew is
still working of sidewalk prepartion and granite
curbing.

Here is the first look at the Texas Rail.

FR Lafayette was here today installing granite

curb for the face of sidewalk in the roadway part

of the project.

Forming the "Texas Rail" bridge railing. The wood

blocks will be the windows through the rail.

I did not reduce the image size, so double click on the picture

to open it in a larger format.

To see a picture of what Texas Rail looks like when

it's complete, scroll to the bottom of the page left side.

Paving the 5" of base course. This was a long day
of difficult paving. The traffic was very heavy, slowing
the progress down, which blocked the traffic, which slowed
the paving, which blocked the traffic....etc..

Today we finished the concrete for the sidewalks
across the bridge.

Working on adding dense graded crushed stone
to the subbase on the south end of the bridge.
Traffic was so heavy today that we didn't get
all of it done in preparation for the paving crew
to cover it on Monday. It's amazing how many
people are out and driving around in the middle
of a weekday in this town.

The subbase on the north end is now up to bottom

of pavement level. The detour is now very steep.

We will pave the parts of the detour that we have

disturbed on Monday when we pave the new part

of the roadway.