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Thanks,
Randy
Perhaps the most intimidating thing a person can say to a route builder begins with "I live..." because you know you can never live up to their experience of reality.
This thread is, of course, no exception... I havn't done much w/ Dixon yet; The track is in but not all the roadbed... no town to speak of as yet so all I've got to show you is a few trees and some weeds and such. Hope it's not too disappointing.
An aerial from the south end of town, looking SSW (I need to do some tertex art to remove that dry grass around the orchard) and a low shot of a different orchard looking NW:
and a couple of staged shots at the creek on the north side of town, two looking SW, one SE (the trestle is custom built to SP Common Standards):
I have not been able to get an isolated photo of a California Sycamore and so I've been using an image of a London Plane tree I took in Davis... pretty strong sunshine up there on top and no autumn or winter images for either. Nor have I been able to get an isolated shot of those junk poplar trees you always see along creeks and so I'd say the trees in the scene look ok but not the way I'd like to have it.
I'm reasonably satisfied with the Walnut Orchard; I'd like to have a good winter image to use and certainly a crop of wild mustard is called for in winter as well, neither of which do I have images.
I recently worked in very distant DM so in the first shot there is a glimpse of Mt Diablo off in the distance. And the extra view distance w/ OR necessitated working in more farmland tertex Fortunately that's easy w/ Mosaic but I'm really pushing the limits of that program with the extra tiles. I'm not sure yet if 4km on either side of the tracks is enough or not but I think it might be. Anyway, Dixon is midway between top and bottom.