Thanks, guys, I do love how the track work looks on film. Its really pretty simple...cheap brown latex paint on the rails and ties followed by---drumroll please---sifted and demagnetized parking lot dirt with a sprinkle of Woodland Scenics N scale ballast for contrast. The camera is a Fuji FinePix A210 with 3.2 megapixels. Not top end but I'm bouncing off the walls nonetheless. I'll still be playing with it for a while...