US 83 Bridge at the Salt Fork of the Red River

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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