I'm painting Chooch flexible timber cribbing walls and liked the black cinder fill look but have had trouble finding prototype examples. This wall will be approx. 30 scale feet high. Do I need to grey up the cinders so that they look more like granite gravel to be prototypical? This wall is behind the roundhouse on a terminal railroad. The r.h. IS in a back woodsly area, hence it's visual use but the majority is an urban-ish Terminal R.R.
Thanks!
Jim
Raised on the Erie Lackawanna Mainline- Supt. of the Black River Transfer & Terminal R.R.
Jim,
If it'a 30' high, you're more likely talking stone fill of some kind. Cinders make fair ballast but poor subroadbed. Weight bearing capacity, darinage and resistance to compactation could all be factors here. 30' deep cinders is a lot of 'em.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Hi Mike. Thanks for the reply. That's what I figured...so I guess I'll have to grey things up a bit then.
The only prototype I could find was a cement cribbing wall filled with cinders (somewhere on google books) in Cleveland that was this high. I coudn't find one single other example anywhere after a week of looking.
Cheers and thanks,
Take a look at the cribbing on this Garden Railroad Model:
http://www.bagrs.org/page-495581/1272823
Take Care!
Frank
Thanks Frank. I'll strike a happy medium between grey and black-ish for soot and creosote seepage.