Bridge painters have to wear Tyvek coverings when dealing with the old cable paint. Golden Gate bridge workers are restoring the main cables by sanding and painting over 15,000 feet beginning with ...

The main cables of the Golden Gate Bridge will be renovated for the first time since the span opened in 1937. Latest U.S.

The Golden Gate Bridge's builders introduced many innovations, but perhaps the most impressive was the precise and efficient technique they used to construct the massive cables.

Talk about a difficult paint job. Golden Gate Bridge workers are repainting the main bridge cables for the first time after almost 75 years of the cables’ exposure to the salt air. The work is ...

Scaffolding is set to arrive by Wednesday at the Golden Gate Bridge so workers can do something that has never been done since the span opened: renovate the massive main cables. The bridge ...

"The main cables of the Golden Gate Bridge can't be replaced, they have to be periodically painted and cared for exterior paint is really what protects the 80,000 miles of wire inside the cables ...

Crews are painting the main cables of the Golden Gate Bridge—giving them a fresh coat of the span's iconic "international orange" color for the first time after almost 75 years.

The Golden Gate Bridge, for instance, is supported by one abutment on each end and the two towers, which are placed over foundations embedded in the seafloor. The Golden Gate Bridge’s two supporting ...

Workers complete the catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, spanning the Golden Gate Strait, prior to spinning the bridge cables during construction in San Francisco, Calif. on Oct. 25, 1935.

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge commenced on January 5, 1933 and lasted four and a half years, at a cost of over 35 million dollars. The landmark structure is one of the largest suspension ...