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Well I am 68 years old and when i was a youngster of 8 or 9 I lived near a freight staging yard we use to hop a freighter for several miles down the track and another one back to the yard and all tops of the rail were shiney and so was the inside of the rail where the flange touched. If you want to prototype use a magic marker to stain the out side of the rail and the lower part of the inside rail but paint?, It's one thing to try to make your layout look great it's another to invite trouble which is what he has. Besides if you ballast correctly you don't see much of the lower rail to worry about, and if somebody said to me your lower rails are shiney I'd escort them out by the back of their neck, and goodby see you at the end of the line. <br />Beeline
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