The overhead transmission line spanning the Puget Sound Narrows near Tacoma offers several unique project challenges. EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WE GET TO DO SOMETHING MEMORABLE. To a transmission line engineer, that memorable event may be designing an extraordinarily long transmission line with a great number of repetitive details to manage, or it may be designing a single span on which nothing is typical. Whatever form the memorable project takes, we all cherish the opportunity and hope for another. In 2003, Tacoma Power (Tacoma, Washington, U.S.) offered POWER Engineers Inc. (POWER; Hailey, Idaho, U.S.) such an opportunity. What ensued was three years of once-in-a-lifetime challenges and entertainment.
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