Reply to "How many of you hand lay your own rail?"

@Ron H posted:

Which ever way you build or lay your track, hand or ready made, painting the rail first makes a huge difference. I spray the individual rails with a Rustoleum brown and then weather with diluted india ink and use separately pre-weather gray tie strips with wooden ties laid in here and there. It's [pretty effective.

Or you could just start with weathered rail.