Updated Photos: Minneapolis' I-35W Bridge Demolition

Demolition is well along on what’s left of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, MN. Reader Paul Brandt, a soils scientist working on a job nearby, went up and shot these photos the morning of Thursday, Sept. 13 as the bridge debris is being cut up and carted away. He went up on the Tenth St. Bridge just south of the collapsed bridge and took shots looking north. DN editor-in-chief John Dodge took his photos looking south a week after the Aug. 1 catastrophe from the Stone Arch Bridge north of the I-35W Bridge. Investigators still don’t what brought down the span.

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UPDATED PHOTOS: I-35W BRIDGE DEMOLITION

All photos taken by Paul Brandt The ramp on the east side of the Mississippi River

A look north toward the famed Stone Arch Bridge from the eastern end of the bridge

Up the Mississippi River to the north at locks

Tangled steel that once formed the western end of the bridge where it begins to cross the river