A traffic camera keeps watch over the part of the Illinois Tollway system.
A lone locomotive moves through rail yards in northeast Minneapolis at night.
An engineer inspects the underside of a new highway bridge on the Illinois Tollway system.
A worker washes residue off of recently poured concrete on the Franklin Avenue bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
A 747 cargo plane lands in the dawn light at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, as road equipment being used to construct a new western access road for the airport sits in the foreground.
A county employee in northern Minnesota performs maintenance work on one of the county's road graders.
Traffic blurs through the Illinois Tollway system at sunset.
A lot of concrete is getting poured as part of the Illinois Tollway's 15 year $14 billion investment program.
A bus blurs under a span of the newly refurbished Franklin Avenue bridge in Minneapolis.
One way to appreciate the size and scope of the Illinois Tollway system is to look at some of its bridges from underneath.
A view of work on the Franklin Avenue shows the context to downtown Minneapolis.
Workers prepare for a concrete pour along a new onramp on the Illinois Tollway system.
A Metro Transit Blue Line train pulls into the Mall of America station.
A worker puts the finishing touches on a rebar cage to be used in creating a concrete pier for a new highway bridge.
A new section of road deck is craned into position on the rebuilt Franklin Avenue bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
A form is pulled off the first pier of the new 35W road bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis less than a year after the old bridge collapsed.
Work on bridges in the Illinois Tollway system often has to happen late at night to avoid disrupting traffic.
Peter Sanderson, Project Manager for the 35W bridge project, makes his way through scaffolding that supports forms for the massive concrete roadway sections that will span the Mississippi River.
The Franklin Avenue bridge, and the equipment being used to rebuild it, are reflected in the Mississippi River.
A recently poured concrete bridge pier waits to be connected with the rest of the bridge.
An backhoe works inside a coffer dam as part of the refurbishment of the 3rd Avenue Bridge in downtown Minneapolis.
An engineer points out progress on rebuilding the Franklin Avenue bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Crews apply shotcrete to exposed areas of the Franklin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis.
Traffic speeds under overpasses on the Illinois Tollway system.
A sternwheel paddle boat sails under the newly renovated Franklin Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
A drainage engineer inspects work on a new transit-only access ramp to Interstate 35W in downtown Minneapolis.
A water-level view of the newly refurbished Franklin Avenue bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis at sunset.
An aerial view of the coffer dams built around piers and within St Anthony Falls for the 3rd Ave bridge on the Mississippi River.
A worker attached to a safety line applies concrete to a span of the Franklin Avenue bridge in Minneapolis.
A worker getting ready for a concrete pour on a new exit ramp, part of the Illinois Tollway expansion.
Inside the control room of the Illinois Tollway system in Downers Grove.
An aerial view of staging work on the 3rd Avenue bridge in Minneapolis in preparation for building a new deck, and new barriers, railings, and lighting.
A light rail locomotive and its bogies undergoing maintenance at the Metro Transit operations facility in Big Lake, MN.
An early morning view of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The river was drawn to historically low levels for maintenance reasons, and this exposed several historic structures in the middle of the channel.
A Metro Transit light rail train arrives at the MSP Airport Terminal 1 station.