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[Relic]

I was just looking at some fantastic photo,s over in the other bay, that by the way made me wanna burn my junk (ha) Anyway the thing I thought of was nobody with steam setups models burned ties. When I was a kid I spent a lot of thme playing on the tracks(??) it was also a lot shorter by about two miles to the next community. ANYWAY(Get to the point) there were lots of ties in various degrees of burnedupedness

 

[Ralph]

An interesting detail idea fo steam layouts. I like the concept of "burnedupness" too!
Any ideas out there for modeling burned ties?
Ralph

 

[Zman]

A blowtorch?

 

[zedob]

I've read (born too late) about the vegetation around tracks catching fire during the steam era and I do remember seeing ties that looked rather charred (the ties were old '29-'30 by the date nails). I always wanted to model a blackened fill, but didn't even think about including the ties. Good observation.

I know one thing for sure, RR ties burn rather well, with all of that creosote.

 

[ezdays]

A blowtorch?

Don't think that would work on plastic ties too well.

My though would be to grind away individual ties using a Dremil tool, then blacken the burned areas.