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Old 03-August-2007, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Larry Jacks View Post
One thing I heard yesterday was that a freight train was passing over the bridge at the time of collapse
Nope. No train on the bridge. 8 lanes of road vehicle traffic only -- at the time, 4 lanes of traffic and 4 lanes of being-resurfaced.

A train was moving (edit: some accounts say standing) under the northern end, parallel to the Mississippi, at the time of the collapse.
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