It took years to float a train over Lake Washington. Here's how it works
Opening the light rail across Lake Washington over the weekend was an historic moment.
Trains go across bridges regularly, but never before has there been a train over a floating bridge.
Engineers worked on the challenge for years.
We’ll hear why it’s so complicated and how engineers pulled it off from University of Washington professor Travis Thonstad.
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Paige Browning
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Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She hopped over Washington’s mountains to join KUOW, after hosting news and reporting at Spokane Public Radio since 2011. She began her start in radio while a journalism student at University of Montana, by sharing stories with KUFM. Paige was raised in the mountains and rivers around Spokane. In her spare time she cheers on the Mariners in the summer, and hopes for snow in the winter.
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Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers
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Brooklyn is a podcast producer on Seattle Now, KUOW's weekday news podcast. She started podcasting as host, creator, and producer of We the (Black) People: An American History Podcast in 2020 and has been trying to uncover stories that aren't getting enough attention ever since.
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