The US 83 Bridge at the Salt Fork of the Red River, bringing US 83 across the Salt Fork Red River near Wellington, Texas, was a truss bridge built in 1939.
It was built at the location of a near capture of Bonnie and Clyde, whose car plunged into the river in 1933.
[2][3] It was a work of the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. and the Texas highway Department.
[1][4] Originally the only bridge across the river, TxDOT added a supplementary bridge when the highway was divided in 1974 that carried southbound traffic while it carried northbound traffic.
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