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8ACOLONY San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railroad Bodie and Benton Railroad










The Bodie and Benton Railroad
Part 2 of the Ghost Rails Series


B&B Stock CertificateThe Bodie and Benton Railroad was, as one would expect, a short line railroad that was supposed to go between Bodie California and Benton. In reality, it went from Bodie to Mono Mills and never reached Benton.

During the Research for the project, Ray and I took a drive out to the original site with a GPS and camera to get coordinates. Although the park rangers would not allow us up to the Bodie Station (which still stands) we did extensively explore the Mono Mills area.

One of the Interesting Features of the Mono Mills Site was the Lumber Slide (Pictured at left) which I did model in the scenery (in both versions)

For both versions of the B&B I used Digital Elevation Maps from the US Geological Survey to create the ground terrain exactly as it really exists.


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MSTS Version

The First Version of the Scenery was created for Microsoft Train Simulator. Although I got the terrain modeled and the Track laid out it is very sparse on actual "Scenery."

Mono Mills in the MSTS version of the B&B


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Electronic Arts/Kuju Rail Simulator version

In January of 2008, Kuju (the company that actually wrote MSTS) released a new rail simulation through Electronic Arts.

I have been working on a version of the B&B for Rail Simulator which I expect to be completed sometime in late 2009.

Mono Mills in the Kuju Rail Simulator Version of the B&B (December 2008)
(The Log Slide is just to the right of center, this screenshot is from the opposite angle as the previous screenshots)



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