All aboard! Coastal rail service shakes off corrosion

Southport Lumber Company’s first rail car shipment has left the North Spit, and is on it’s way to Eugene. Things got off to a rocky start Thursday morning, as the train left about four hours behind schedule. General manager of the railroad, Tom Foster says, that’s to be expected when you’ve had fours years of [...]

Connecticut College’s steel house getting chance to shine again

Shedding paint flakes the size of dinner plates, the rusty steel house huddled in a corner of Connecticut College’s campus appeared for years to be more of an eyesore than a historic treasure. As one of few 1930s steel houses of its type still standing nationwide, though, the prefabricated cottage holds a pedigree on par [...]

12 Montreal structures considered critical due to corrosion

Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay said on Wednesday that 12 bridges, tunnels and overpasses in the city identified by engineers as being in critical condition. “We have the reports from our engineers that these structures are safe,” Tremblay told reporters at city hall, where technical details on 35 structures were made public. “From the moment one [...]

‘Significant corrosion’ on Stillwater Lift Bridge

STILLWATER, Minn. — Temporary load restrictions begin Thursday for the Stillwater Lift Bridge after the discovery of significant corrosion on some of the bridge’s components. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) says crews discovered the corrosion during a regularly scheduled inspection. “Although the bridge can safely handle day to day traffic, heavy loads will wear the [...]

Cincinnati museum center pitches $150M bond

Money would be used 
to help repair the 
80-year-old building. Union Terminal is literally pushing itself apart. Officials at the Cincinnati Museum Center went before the Hamilton County Commissioners Monday to ask for a $150 million bond to be put on the November ballot to help repair the 80-year-old building. The commissioners didn’t say “no” [...]

Illinois American Water continues its pipeline replacement program – Aging Infrastructure

The barricades are coming down on Illinois 159 at the Swansea-Belleville  border as Illinois American Water completes the first phase of its $1.6 million water  main replacement and corrosion project. About  700 feet of 8-inch water main dating from 1958 was replaced at a cost of about $325,000. The replacement program focuses on replacing mains where leaks [...]

Engineers use Route 23 bridge in Wayne to study corrosion

WAYNE – An international team of engineers and researchers, each dressed in a yellow vest and hard hat, on Tuesday poked and prodded – so to speak – at a steel string bridge, looking for signs of deterioration & corrosion. International engineers conduct a study of highway bridge deterioration using a bridge on Route. 23 in [...]

Cleveland State University needs to spend millions to repair buildings – Corrosion Issues

The black fence in front of Cleveland State University‘s Stillwell Hall is more than decorative –it’s to protect people if pieces of the sandstone facade begin to fall. Reanchoring the facade to the 85-year-old building will cost about $8.5 million — just a portion of the $24 million university officials say is needed for safety-related repairs on campus. [...]

Revenue hunger may corrode skywalks in Mumbai

It has turned out to be one of the most controversial projects of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). Now, almost complete, the skywalk project may be prone to one big danger — corrosion. Most of these walkways are covered by aluminum sheets from below and this may lead to massive corrosion, say authority [...]

MATCOR – Installing Cathodic Protection Anodes to Protect Historic Marina

Studies have shown that for every dollar invested in cathodic protection (CP), ten dollars of future spending is averted. So, instead of spending a fortune on cyclical repairs, it seems that a smarter investment would be to protect infrastructure using cathodic protection. For instance, why would a small to mid-sized marina drive up operating expenses [...]