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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Adelie</i> <br /><br />The weathering on top of the rails comes off with a brite boy easily enough. You will want to clean it off the tops, if for no other reason than real rails are shiny on top from being "polished" by the wheels of passing trains. The rails on seldom-used sidings are rusted on tops, too. <br /> <br />Guy is right, they weather it with a chemical blackener (that is available by itself for weathering stuff). <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />One correction: Rail that is subject to constant use is shiny on top. Rail on a siding that gets switched out once a month is likely to be rusty on top. So, it depends on what you want to model: a mainline with heavy traffic or a seldom-used spur. By the way, a spur that sees daily switching traffic will be shiny on top. So, I would use the Bright Boy on all mainline, yard, and heavily used spurs, but I would try to leave one spur that gets little traffic "rusty" on top. That might provide an interesting contrast. <br /> <br />IMHO, the reported tendency of ME pre-weathered rail to be hard to solder to is a source of potential problems. I would be very careful to clean the places where I wanted to solder to the rail. However, that could be an advantage, since the weathering provides a solder resist to help keep solder from places where you don't want it go go. <br /> <br />
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