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about 18 years ago

Big crane ducks under Columbia bridge, heads for Portland

With about four feet to spare, a 16-story crane sneaked under the Columbia River bridge at Astoria Bridge on Thursday. The passage came in the dark, with fog, at 5:30 a.m. For a few bleary-eyed onlookers, a glimmer of light atop the Chinese ship Zhen Hua 17 gave the only indication of just how close

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With about four feet to spare, a 16-story crane sneaked under the Columbia River bridge at Astoria Bridge on Thursday.

The passage came in the dark, with fog, at 5:30 a.m.

For a few bleary-eyed onlookers, a glimmer of light atop the Chinese ship Zhen Hua 17 gave the only indication of just how close the crane came to scraping the span.

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