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Oregon Trunk Bridge

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The Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge or Celilo Bridge"Woman Christens Big Celilo Bridge" (January 6, 1912). The Morning Oregonian, p. 10. is a single-track railroad bridge opened in 1912 over the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It consists of eight steel truss spans and several deck girder spans, and since 1957 it has included a vertical-lift section. The bridge was designed by engineer Ralph Modjeski and erected by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., of Leavenworth, Kansas. Read more on Wikipedia

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