Re: Mears Junction Bridge Questions

Casey Akin Wrote:
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> If you look at Russo's picture, it looks
> like they stained them in oil or Creosote,
> but not very well.

Samart Wrote:
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> I was just noticing the same thing Casey
> when I looked over the bents in Russo's
> picture.  That should really help out a
> lot in the look.


It's almost certainly Creosote, guys -

Every wooden trestle I've even been close enough to sniff has smelled strongly of the stuff.  Somewhere in my trunk of HOn3 stuff - forgotten when I converted to 12"/foot scale - there's a can of ModelCraft(?) Creosote Stain that looks and IIRC even smells like the real thing - just thinned out a lot.

And BTW, Rex Beistle got it right - it's NOT "Russo's Photo", it's Don Hills' "photo that Russo posted".

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