The 650 mile, 1000 kilometer, Tennessee River is the 6th largest river by discharge rate in N America and has many large bridges and dams. It starts in Knoxville Tennessee traveling south west through Chattanooga to Guntersville Alabama then heading north west to join the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky. This is about 30 miles, 50 kilometer, east of Cairo, Illinois where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi River. The river is important for moving materials by barge and has 9 dams and locks to facilitate the traffic.
River barges and rail bridges in the sim are mostly covered by water but this package brings them and the river to life. Models of dams and bridges have replaced the default or missing items in the sim. Many of the bridges are very large, built in the early 1900’s and are still in use, but many have been demolished and replaced by more modern designs.
The MSFS scenery is a vast improvement over previous flight sims. However bridges over large waterways, rivers or other bodies of water are very noticeable and are an eyesore destroying realism. Rkbridger packages solve that issue with bridge packages which show the bridges in their true magnificence and also improves the entire landscape along the stretch of water modeled. All bridges are modeled in the correct architectural style with appropriate night lighting and traffic flowing on the bridges.
POIs have been placed at each model and are listed below.
Photogrammetry must be ON to ensure models integrate correctly with the sim.
The package works with both MSFS2020 and MSFS2024 but due to terrain elevation errors in MSFS2024 a few bridges do not currently integrate into MSFS2024 correctly.
Models of bridges, dams and locks are listed below: