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Reply to "Tie coloring....frustrating....."

Bob - I haven't started to weather the track yet as I'm holding off until after the branch is fully operational. Last month I laid quite a bit of track to connect the branch with the main. The only trackwork remaining to build is the Oceola Mills yard - about 12 turnouts.

At this point all I know is I won't be using straight Floquil rail brown as on my old railroad. I think Chris's base color looks quite good. I'll probably try playing with a mix of grimy black and rail brown/rust on the sides of the rails. In addition to 2400' of track to weather - I have more wheel sets to re-weather than I'd care to count! Perhaps if internet photos were around in the 1980's I'd have done better the first time around.

Chris - please continue to share - we'll all benifit.

Ed Rappe

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