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White Sands· 1992

The gorge bridge

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Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.Now
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge today.Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened here

A cantilever bridge 650 feet above the Rio Grande, used for its vertiginous span and its view of the gorge below.

Trivia

At the time of its 1965 completion it was the highest bridge in the US Highway System.

About White Sands

A sheriff in a small southwestern town discovers a corpse in the desert with a suitcase containing $500,000. He assumes the dead man's identity and inadvertently becomes involved in an FBI investigation.