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In order to help you make the most of your trip to Oregon, here is some information on the safe places and areas to avoid in Portland. Show comments Advertisement
Second (rebuilt) Madison Bridge at Portland, Oregon, showing swing span. Opened in January 1891, the first Madison Street Bridge was a swing bridge which pivoted on a large central trunnion mounted on a piling structure in the river. [4] The bridge was poorly designed. [4] At the time of the accident, the bridge was owned by the City of ...
Flooding just north of downtown Portland in February 1996, viewed looking southeast towards the Steel Bridge An aerial view of the Willamette River's flood. The Willamette Valley flood of 1996 was part of a larger series of floods in the Pacific Northwest of the United States which took place between late January and mid-February 1996.
The second bridge in March 1908, when flooding upriver had caused a log jam to accumulate around it. The swing span is out of frame to the left in this view. The Madison Street Bridge, or Madison Bridge, refers to two different bridges that spanned the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, from 1891 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1909.
The Marquam Bridge / ˈ m ɑːr k əm / is a double-deck, steel-truss cantilever bridge [1] that carries Interstate 5 traffic across the Willamette River from south of downtown Portland, Oregon, on the west side to the industrial area of inner Southeast on the east. It is the busiest bridge in Oregon, carrying 140,500 vehicles a day as of 2016. [2]
It is the only suspension bridge in the Willamette Valley and one of three public highway suspension bridges in Oregon. [2] The bridge has a 1,207-foot (368 m) center span and a total length of 2,067 feet (630 m). [3] It is the tallest bridge in Portland, with two 400-foot-tall (120 m) towers and a 205-foot (62 m) navigational clearance. [4]
Around 6:15 a.m. local time, “approximately five Union Pacific train cars derailed near the east end of the Union Pacific Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon,” Union Pacific spokesperson Meg ...
The BNSF Railway Bridge 5.1, [2] [4] also known as the St. Johns Railroad Bridge [2] [4] [5] or the Willamette River Railroad Bridge, [6] is a through truss railway bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States.