Still in use today the Brooksville Trestle spans the New Haven River. There's a great shot of it in Shaughnessy's Rutland Road book in the Vermont album that was taken in 1971.

In May 2005 I also got a railside view of the trestle aboard the excursion that the Rutland Railroad Historical Society ran. It is a subtle but impressive trestle in an extremely pastoral setting,

From the trestle you cannot see the town of Brooksville. I can't recall ever passing through there, but I had many occasions crossing the New Haven River while going north of south on Hwy 7 which is just to the East of the town shown by the red line on the map.

I recall several farms in the area, and a carpet of rolling hills. The River itself was narrow but unique for the area as most are washcuts lined with rock bottoms and cuts. The river as I remember it was muddy and similar to the Otter Creek although its banks were higher and it probably sees a lot less flooding.

The Otter Creek on the map is the body of water running northwesterly. There is a dam and power station at Beldens just south of the map that probably accounts for the reason the New Haven doesn't spill its banks.

The Trestle is located slightly to the East of where the New Haven River and the Otter Creek join after a significant bend. In real life it is hard to pick out the Otter as there is heavy underbrush and foliage on the point.

The other interesting note is that on the north shore a dirt road follows the shoreline around the point. This isn't shown on the map for some reason.

Here's a view of the trestle from about 30 feet above. It is constructed out of 30m sections and either 2 or 3 different pieces to each 30 m section. There are 6 separate sections that make up the bridge.

The two end sections merge with the ties merging with Trainsims normal track with no support braces. The support braces only appear between the stone supports for the bridge. Support braces and stone support are separate parts and where placed and lined up first.

The railbed is supported by a boxed iron framework with one center brace. Upon this framework are three wooden rails that run lengthwise. Two outboard and one in the center. Upon this I laid the rail ties roughly about 30 to a section. I did not go for accuracy here as I wanted it to look a bit more used and neglected. Upon the ties obvious lays the standard rail for the train to cross. As a finishing touch I added some lighter outboard runners to the section. These also made the trestle easier to line up.

After smoothing the surrounding terrain, I went ahead and added the vegetation which are simply forest areas surrounded by the red boxes. I first laid down a reddish yellow custom sumac texture, then placed some half sized sycamore trees. I then dropped in a forest of either 8 m or 15 m Birch trees, even running them beneath the trestle as depicted in Shaughnessy's book. For wider areas I used a custom large bush texture which really is a combination of the JP1largebush and some reddish-yellow weed textures.