I've made a lot more progress all of a sudden so here new images of the White River and the loops that climb up to Ute summit.The escarpment splines work well if layered , i had to make new 2048 x 1024 images as anything smaller is a bit ropey.
but they seem to be working well.
still need some more sage here and there, but this is almost complete.
still a bit more work to be done in the distance, round the corner on the left is Ignatio, where there's a road bridge, there were two plans, one was for this bridge here,which is longer and higher and thus more expensive. The other was to cross the river at Ignatio, which would have been a much longer route and ,even though the bridge would have been cheaper, would have involved a lot of blasting to cut a ledge for the track along the cliff face.
in this view you can see the track where it emerges from evacuation wash on the right, on the further bank the track loops three times to gain height over about 8 trestles and then turns left in the top near the middle of the frame and then descends into another canyon .I have studied this area more carefully now its closer to completion and have built up the ground a lot as the DEM i did wasn't detailed enough to render the terrain sufficiently accurately . In Ute canyon, the cliffs are again, rather a challenge ,as they are composed of rock that runs in horizontal lines, and the tight curves mean that they are going to be very hard to create a credible vision , but at least now i have 90% of White River canyon looking fairly respectable and i'm feeling quite relieved to have done it.
but they seem to be working well.
still need some more sage here and there, but this is almost complete.
still a bit more work to be done in the distance, round the corner on the left is Ignatio, where there's a road bridge, there were two plans, one was for this bridge here,which is longer and higher and thus more expensive. The other was to cross the river at Ignatio, which would have been a much longer route and ,even though the bridge would have been cheaper, would have involved a lot of blasting to cut a ledge for the track along the cliff face.
in this view you can see the track where it emerges from evacuation wash on the right, on the further bank the track loops three times to gain height over about 8 trestles and then turns left in the top near the middle of the frame and then descends into another canyon .I have studied this area more carefully now its closer to completion and have built up the ground a lot as the DEM i did wasn't detailed enough to render the terrain sufficiently accurately . In Ute canyon, the cliffs are again, rather a challenge ,as they are composed of rock that runs in horizontal lines, and the tight curves mean that they are going to be very hard to create a credible vision , but at least now i have 90% of White River canyon looking fairly respectable and i'm feeling quite relieved to have done it.
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