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The Maestri Bridge comes close, but runs short by two-tenths of a mile at roughly 4.8 miles (7.7 km) in total length. Louisiana is also home to the Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge, which at 5.8 miles (9.3 km) is one of the longest railway bridges in the United States.
While the bridge was opened to public Tuesday evening, a "rolling fog convoy" is still in effect on the Causeway as of 10:00 a.m. Wednesday as portions of southeast Louisiana and southern ...
Pine Island cut (manmade canal, approximately 24 miles long) [7] US 501, Black Skimmer Trail (fixed span) Pine Island bascule bridge, originally built as a combination rail and vehicle span [8] Robert M. Grissom Parkway (fixed span) Grande Dunes Boulevard (fixed span) S.C. 22/Future I-73 (fixed spans) Barefoot Resort Bridge (swing bridge ...
Horace Wilkinson Bridge, Baton Rouge; Huey P. Long Bridge, Baton Rouge – carries four lanes of U.S. Route 190 across the Mississippi River. Two railroad trestles. Huey P. Long Bridge, Jefferson Parish – one of the longest railroad bridges in the US: 7 km (4.3 mi)
The Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge is a rolling lift trunnion bridge that carries a single-track of Norfolk Southern rail line over Lake Pontchartrain between Slidell and New Orleans, Louisiana, parallel to the Maestri Bridge [2] At 5.8 miles (9.3 km) long, it is the longest railroad bridge in the United States and the longest rail bridge over water in the world.
West Pearl River Bridge Extant Vertical-lift bridge: 1933 2016 US 90: West Pearl River: Slidell: St. Tammany: LA-32: Lockport Company Canal Bridge Extant Vertical-lift bridge: 1959 2016 LA 1 (Crescent Avenue) Lockport Company Canal Lockport: Lafourche
The Maestri Bridge (originally known as the Pontchartrain Bridge and later as the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge and the Five Mile Bridge) carries U.S. Route 11 (US 11) across Lake Pontchartrain between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana, in the United States. The 4.78-mile (7.69 km) bridge was the longest concrete bridge in the world ...
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