The strengths and weaknesses of two large wooden bridge trusses, reconstructed from a 1918 bridge that was destroyed by arson, are being studied at Case Western Reserve University.

MARYLAND (7News) — The Francis Scott Key Bridge and its collapse will continue to hamper supply routes across the nation. Until this week, it was the second-longest continuous truss bridge in ...

When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that ...

The second-longest continuous truss bridge. The Francis Scott Key Bridge was the second-longest continuous truss bridge span in the world, according to the American Civil Engineering Society.

At the time of construction in 1977, this made it the world’s third-longest continuous truss bridge. J.E. Greiner Co., Inc. of Baltimore designed the project.