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jrbarney, Oh yes - I've been piling discarded ties in several areas of my layout. I mass-produced many by cutting them from basswood and weathering them with DIRT and RAILROAD TIE BROWN acrylics with very good results (distressed them too). I've even modelled a section of ROW that's in the final stages of being scrapped, where the roadbed is weedy, the rails have been removed and the ties are now being picked-up and piled along the parallel line's ROW by a work gang to be hauled-away by a scrap train. I did rust the places on the ties where the tie plates had been and the visual impact of the scene is fantastic. I believe Micro-Engineering is the place where I also just recently bought 1000 N-scale ties that look real good too. From the approx. size of tie plates (14.5" X 7.75" according to a Penn Central blueprint I found on the web) it boils-down to roughly 1/16th" X 1/32nd" in N scale (and that's ballpark measuring), I may have to settle for strips of .005" styrene cut, painted and rusted, or I may just "punt" and say my eyes are too valuable to destroy with that small a work.
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