OHIO RIVER BRIDGES CINCI TO LOUISVILLE

This package upgrades and combines the “Cincinnati, Ohio River Bridges” package and the “Louisville, Ohio River Bridges” package. It also adds the 3 bridges between these cities, fixes 150 miles of river traffic, and makes some other improvements to the original packages which are now withdrawn.

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