01-28-2011, 01:43 PM
I stain my ties in five different shades, from new, fresh creosote to faded-gray-ready-for-replacement. I spread them out on newspaper to dry. When dry, I throw them all into the same large coffee can (pianted M.O.W. yellow and marked "Ties") and just use them as they come out by the handful.
I glue them down, spike down the rail, and while running the obligatory testing for bullet-proofness, I do as Gary, run a #0 paintbrush loaded with a medium rust/rail brown paint along the rail web and by the time I'm certain it's good-to-go for ballast, I'm very close to having it all painted ... and it is threapeutic, just like hand laying the rail is.
A light over-spray of the same medium rust/rail brown paint, followed by a dusting of coats of grime, and a little grimy black around the points and frogs of the turnouts. It's all relaxing stuff!
I glue them down, spike down the rail, and while running the obligatory testing for bullet-proofness, I do as Gary, run a #0 paintbrush loaded with a medium rust/rail brown paint along the rail web and by the time I'm certain it's good-to-go for ballast, I'm very close to having it all painted ... and it is threapeutic, just like hand laying the rail is.
A light over-spray of the same medium rust/rail brown paint, followed by a dusting of coats of grime, and a little grimy black around the points and frogs of the turnouts. It's all relaxing stuff!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln