If you've ever driven south on the Maine Turnpike out of Maine, you've been on the Piscataqua River Bridge. The big green through arch bridge that connects Maine and New Hampshire allows 3 lanes of traffic going either north into Maine or south in to New Hampshire...
The bridge was built in 1892 mainly for workers of the Cabot Mill to cross the river between Topsham and Brunswick. It's over 330 feet long and although some of it has been repaired and replaced, the cables that steady the bridge are original...
Doesn't it seem like takes forever to have a bridge replaced around here? In Beijing they have it down to a science and can replaced this overpass in just 43 hours!