For those that have never seen the BIG MAC Bridge

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 3:13 pm

So I don't steal from another thread. Thought I would post the web site for the Mackinac bridge. Heres a couple of pics. The bridge is miles long. Theres is alot of info on the web site you can go back and see how it was built.

http://www.mackinacbridge.org/photo-gallery-10/

JC this one is just for you.

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » April 17, 2008, 4:58 pm

it's strange. none look like the crazy ski jump slope seen in the other thread. The last one looks really short, the first 2 really long... Is it really the same bridge??? the pics just look completely incongruous... optical tricks I guess!

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » April 17, 2008, 5:07 pm

Worst thing is, you can see right thru the deck.

and it looks just like the pic I showed, when you are driving on it. So, you seem to be going straight up, and all you can see below you (Seems like a mile below you) is water. Best not to eat tacos before you drive across it, 'cause it gives a whole new meaning to "Fill yer boots"

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 5:13 pm

BA they are all the same bridge just different angles. Hard to do it justice when it's 5 miles long.

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » April 17, 2008, 5:14 pm

the roadbed all the way is that steel grate??? WOW. Sorry bout your feelings about it, but I think that sounds awesome! haha

ha my dad said that when he was little his family referred to dog crap as Tacos... I dont know if that's what the word translated as at some point, or if they were just wierd..

Kinda like my gma thinks that Bell Peppers are referred to as Mangos... I think she's a bit off.... As far as that goes, I think she always has been...

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 5:17 pm

BA the grate is only in the center lane on the higher part of the bridge.

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » April 17, 2008, 7:35 pm

That thing looks really cool, expecially that first shot. It's hard to imagine it's 5 miles long, from the pics.

Lowell · Post by **Lowell** » April 17, 2008, 8:17 pm

Pulled a travel trailer across it during high winds. When that happens all rvs and big trucks are required to stay in the outside lanes and stay at 20 mph with the four way flashers on.
Stayed it the Mackinaw mill creek campground that has a beautiful wiew of the bridge especially at night when its all lit up.

GLindley · Post by **GLindley** » April 17, 2008, 8:19 pm

Wow...from the original title of this post, "For those of you who have never seen Big Mac", I thought we were either gonna be talking about this...

Or this......

willy3486 · Post by **willy3486** » April 17, 2008, 8:49 pm

That reminds me of where my dad worked when I was a kid. We lived in Tuscon in the early 70s,I wish we had stayed I loved it there. Anyway he worked at the Andaconda copper mine and we went to a tour there one day. It great to a 6 year old. I got to see a Terex Titan truck close up and see it in the bottom of the copper mine,1 mile wide by 1 mile deep if I remember correctly. Then we got to go inside one of the buildings. They had some of that metal in there to walk on. I remember seeing down the other levels at the guys working there. It about freaked this 6 year old at the time out. I bet those guys under the level I was on thought that leaky hydralic fluid was thin and very yellow. .

flareside64 · Post by **flareside64** » April 17, 2008, 8:56 pm

I like DA U.P.!
Yep, I've been over it a few times. Pretty amazing. Quite a few people died in the building of that bridge.. The U.P. is actually like going to another country almost when your from the lower peninsula. Its a beautiful place to visit. Its actually kind of amazing when I talk to people from other states they have never heard of the mighty mac or Mackinac island.

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 8:59 pm

Gene I had to change it for you so everyone understands.

GLindley · Post by **GLindley** » April 17, 2008, 9:04 pm

Oh, pooie....now do I have to go back and change my original post so *I* don't look like an idiot? (as if I don't anyway)....

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 9:09 pm

No its good for a laugh anyway.

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » April 17, 2008, 9:30 pm

I go across this one everyday, doesn't seem as menacing as that one.
Charlie

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Chesape ... ridge.html

Phil · Post by **Phil** » April 17, 2008, 9:47 pm

Haven't crossed it since I was a kid.
My dad is moving up there next month.
He's house hunting now

36truck · Post by **36truck** » April 17, 2008, 9:51 pm

What area Phil?

Phil · Post by **Phil** » April 17, 2008, 10:00 pm

I think I messed up. I just looked at a map.

He's been looking all over but last I heard he was talking Manistee. Thats not as close as I thought. Since he retired he drives up weekly from Toledo and fishes the Manistee river.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » April 18, 2008, 8:13 am

66fordtrucknut wrote:I go across this one everyday, doesn't seem as menacing as that one.
Charlie

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Chesape ... ridge.html

Charlie why in the heck would they put a CURVE in a bridge?
Never seen that before.. usually they go straight from point A to point B without the extra special thrill of sliding off in the winter, on a curve..

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » April 18, 2008, 12:18 pm

How would you like to drive across this baby??

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthrea ... 23&page=12
If anyone reads French...

http://www.aurelle-verlac.com/millau/viadmil.htm