Members of the media tour the old east span of the Bay Bridge as demolition work continues in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2014. Dismantling of the 1936 east span is being done by hand, piece-by-piece, using cutting torches and working in the reverse order from which it was built. When the entire demolition project is complete sometime in 2018, over 58,000 tons of steel and 245,000 tons of concrete will have been removed.

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