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The Baltimore Bridge Collapse & Astoria, Oregon
The Francis Scott Key truss bridge was the third longest span of any continuous truss in the world, and the total length was 8,636 feet long. It was the second-longest bridge in the Baltimore metropolitan area, after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
The Astoria-Megler bridge in the Pacific Northwest is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America and the second longest in the world. It is four miles in length and carries traffic from Astoria, OR to Point Ellis near Megler, WA.