Photos by Mary Alice Murphy and an anonymous photographer

Tuesday afternoon, the first five girders for the replacement New Mexico 90/Hudson Street Bridge linking Silver City to points southward, arrived on the north side of the bridge construction area. The five were lined up nearly back to Broadway.

 This photographer's husband reported Wednesday afternoon that more trucks with I beams aboard were lined up between the U.S. Post Office and Broadway. 

The trucks bearing the 96-foot-long to 108-foot-long girders, weighing about 88,000 pounds apiece will continue coming into Silver City five a day, through Oct. 2, with the exception of Sunday, when none will come into town.

Starting Thursday, the girders will turn right on Broadway and then left on South Bullard Street to stage for the middle portion of the bridge.

The girders will be installed as they come in with two cranes supporting them at the top and at the bottom.

The bridge is expected to be completed by the end of December.

And, below, a photo taken from the U.S. Post Office on Wednesday by a photographer that wishes to remain anonymous.