https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil Portland District News RSS Feed en-us Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:55:26 GMT Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:28:56 GMT https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Media/Feature-Stories/Article/492570/cranes-take-the-loads-off-and-up-and-over/ Omnipresent cranes do the heavy lifting around Corps projects, like strong workhorses on a pioneer farm. All Corps dams have one. The spillway gates at Bonneville Dam and other dams need them, and they slice the horizon of almost every Corps construction project.<br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2013/Aug/13/2000754752/115/75/0/070426-A-QV191-001.JPG' alt='Overhead bridge cranes travel the interior length of Corps powerhouses, mounted on parallel rails above the huge generators. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels across the width of the bridge crane carrying loads and suspending multi-ton parts for maintenance and installation projects. This is a smaller bridge crane, with a capacity of 300 tons; shown here as it “flies a load” in Detroit Dam’s powerhouse.' /> <br /> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:55:26 GMT Amy Echols https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Media/Feature-Stories/Article/492570/cranes-take-the-loads-off-and-up-and-over/ construction