The biggest Baltimore bridge section yet was pulled from the river this weekend. Here’s how.

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The biggest Baltimore bridge section yet was pulled from the river this weekend. Here’s how.

Dangling from one of the biggest floating cranes on the East Coast, the largest chunk yet of the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge was moved ashore Sunday. The approximately 450-ton section of truss sat Monday morning at a processing yard at Tradepoint Atlantic in Baltimore County, where orange sparks flew as workers sawed at the steel. Minutes later, a clawlike pair of shears attached to an excavator tugged on a weakened steel member, folding an …