Cincinnati and Louisville are the 2 largest cities on the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and the Mississippi River. The package starts at the Combs-Hehl Bridge just east of Cincinnati and ends at the Sherman Minton Bridge just west of Louisville.
The default bridges have been replaced with 22 individually and accurately modeled bridges with night lighting to realistically represent the real world. Many of these are iconic steel bridges with unique designs. 2 are on the National Historic Register.
The most famous bridge in Cincinnati is the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opened in 1866 as the longest suspension bridge in the world at that time. Roebling’s most famous bridge is the Brooklyn bridge which then became the longest at that time.
The Markland Dam and Locks, approximately half way between the 2 cities, are completely missing in the default and the generic bridge has been replaced. The dam, locks and bridge all now look much more realistic.
Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, is famous for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs (POI added), Muhammad Ali, Louisville Slugger, and UPS which operates it’s Worldport Air Hub from Louisville International Airport (KSDF).
Louisville also has several bridges of architectural significance. The Big Four Pedestrian Bridge (originally a railroad bridge) has a computer controlled lighting system which allows the public to request a 3 color light scheme of their choosing. The bridge is lit every evening. I have done a Red, Blue, Green configuration for this package.
The new Abraham Lincoln Suspension bridge is completely missing in the sim but the traffic flows as though there was a bridge there. The sim is using mapping from the time when the old bridge had been removed but the new bridge had just started construction. I have put the new bridge in the package but the connecting roads are missing. There were major changes to the road’s spaghetti junction which affected the adjacent Kennedy Memorial bridge. Fixing the road layout for one bridge would ruin the traffic flow for the other. In the package the Abraham Lincoln Bridge is shown accurately but the connecting roads are under construction.
Bridges in the package from east to west along the Ohio are:
• Combs-Hehl Bridge; POI
• Daniel Carter Beard Double Bridge
• Purple People Pedestrian Bridge; POI
• Taylor Southgate Bridge
• John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge; Nat. Historic Register; POI
• Clay Wade Bailey Bridge
• C&O Rail Bridge
• Brent Spence Bridge
• Cincinnati Southern Rail Bridge
• Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge; POI
• Markland Dam Locks and Bridge; POI
• Milton Madison Bridge; POI
• Lewis & Clark Suspension Bridge; POI
• Big Four Pedestrian Bridge with light scheme; POI
• Abraham Lincoln Suspension bridge.
• John F Kennedy Memorial Bridge
• George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge; Nat. Historic Register; POI
• 14th Street Rail Drawbridge
• Ohio Falls Rail Bridge
• Ohio Falls dam and river fix
• Kentucky and Indiana (K & I) Rail Bridge
• Sherman Minton Double Deck Bridge; POI
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