Northern California structures

[torikoos]

I was in Davis just a few months ago. Here's the coordinates you can type into Google for the Davis Wye. 38.543913, -121.737938

Other than the strikingly beautiful depot at Davis, there's a wide variety of structure types in "Old Town" Davis. From brick as mentioned (although not as common as in other parts of the country. The main building material is Stucco. It's applied over most homes, businesses and industries around there.

An extremely modelgenic building in the area (right on the west leg of the wye) is Davis' Ace hardware, that has an old SP 50" DD boxcar as part of the store!

There's an abundance of newer concrete structures around the town in the commercial area, with plenty of "postwar" modern buildings filling the gaps between the wooden victorian era structures and older stucco structures.

Most importantly, use bing maps to see the buildings in a "flyby" type aerial view (*versus satellite) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bing.com/maps/#JmNwPTM4LjU0Mzc1NTkyNTkzMjM3fi0xMjEuNzM3ODAzNzAzNTMwNzQmbHZsPTE4JmRpcj0wJnN0eT1y">http://www.bing.com/maps/#JmNwPTM4LjU0M ... 0wJnN0eT1y</a><!-- m -->

I hope this helps.

I got to find that hardware store, that sounds like a fun project to build! The Davis station I am well familiar with, I found it before, I have the construction drawings of the depot, and it will be part of my future building plans. My layout will feature a compressed version of the Davis Wye with the depot building etc.

Cheers!

Koos