US-290 @ I-35, about 50 feet up, late 1999 or early 2000. Photos by Ronnie Medlock or by me.

With Brian Chen, who at the time was a PhD student instrumenting the crossframes for a UT research project.

Art shot: view out through an access hatch.

Looking east.

Inside view of a bolted field splice. Wiring for the research project also visible.

Looking south toward downtown.

It's easy to walk around inside the tubs. Getting from one line to the next, on the other hand...(I should add that Texas has gotten a lot more serious about fall protection since those days.)

View from between the girders. That big gap wasn't supposed to be there. It made getting from one girder to the next all the more exciting, and it's fun to drive through that interchange, see the gap, and remember that once I was on the inside.

Another view from between the girders. One of my favorite aspects of civil engineering is going places most people don't. And challenging my slight fear of heights.

Looking west. Top lateral bracing between shipping pieces is field-installed.

Another westward view.

This has become the "poster child" shot of tub girders, at least for presenters from Texas. Ronnie Medlock and I argue about which of us took this photo.

Not as pretty, but shows more of the full length of the structure.

Steelworkers. Did I mention that was a long time ago and fall protection is more serious these days?

More getting from tub to tub. It was a lot worse trying to get into the manlift over open air, but there aren't any photos. I'd like to think that when I did that I had my lanyard attached for real to the manlift (but there aren't any photos).