Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Gary Shoffstall remembers it vivid details 40 years later.
So does Ed Gawarecki.
Shoffstall and Gawarecki, both retired from the Buffalo Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, were working on Aug. 7, 1986 and saw “Barge 45”, a 174-foot, 3,000-pound empty barge, crash into the Peace Bridge…