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The Chacahoula Swamp Bridge is a twin concrete trestle bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a total length of 29,544 ft (9,005 m), it is one of the longest bridges in the world . The bridge carries US 90 over the Chacahoula Swamp in Louisiana [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The bridge was opened in 1995.
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1] [8] [10] [11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed.
With a total length of 22.80 miles (36.69 km), [2] [3] it is one of the longest bridges in the world over water, and is the longest bridge on the Interstate Highway System, and some claim it is the longest toll-free road bridge in the world.
Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in the list.
This is a list of trestle bridges.. The United States once had many; now some survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).. These include: in the United States
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The LaBranche Wetlands Bridge is a concrete trestle bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a total length of 7,902 metres (25,925 ft), it is one of the longest bridges in the world . [ 1 ] The bridge carries Interstate 310 over the LaBranche Wetlands [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in St. Charles Parish .
With a total length of 58,077 feet (17,702 m; 10.9994 mi), it is one of the longest bridges in the world. The bridge carries Interstate 10 over the Bonnet Carré Spillway, Lake Pontchartrain, and LaBranche Wetlands in St. Charles Parish and a portion of St. John the Baptist and Jefferson Parishes. The bridge opened in 1972. [2]