Missouri and Mississippi Bridges around St Louis

St Louis sits at the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers. The city was the point of departure for the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the western USA. The Gateway Arch and the Eads Bridge are the most significant monuments/bridges in St Louis.

The Gateway Arch commemorating the western exploration is the tallest arch in the world at 190 meters (623ft) but the default is not lit at night.

The Eads Bridge, opened in 1874, is a National Historic Landmark. It is the first steel-truss bridge, first to carry railroad tracks, first to use tubular cord members, and first to depend entirely on cantilever construction for it’s superstructure. It now has a Metro line on the lower deck and is used for pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the upper deck.

The package includes 26 bridges, for 40 miles upstream on the Missouri from Spirit of St Louis Airport KSUS, and a 37 mile stretch on the Mississippi through central St Louis from Alton to the north and to Oakville in the south including the Chain of Rocks Canal. The Gateway Arch has night lighting added. Water fixes and river traffic fixes have been done for both sections of the 2 rivers and the canal.

Each bridge is individually modeled with accurate dimensions, and provides a very realistic representation of its style and architecture. Each bridge has appropriate night lighting. These bridges look very realistic and replace the MSFS default dams by day and apartment buildings at night.

POI’s have been added: At the first bridge on the Missouri, the Daniel Boone Bridges, beside KSUS, Spirit of St Louis airport. At Chain of Rocks Bridges just to the south of the rivers confluence. At the Eads Bridge beside the Gateway Arch in St Louis. At the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, the last bridge on the Mississippi River in this package.