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At the RR museum of Pennsylvania they have a very cool HO layout- with catenary. Talking to the volunteers, the catenary was actually usable at one time- for powering the GG-1's and other catenary locos. Problem was it was fragile, and quickly broke. Whatever is was they used, they had it weathered to the green-oxidised copper that the real catenary looks like. What you want to use to model catenary depends on how accurate you want to be. You could go the full nine yards, with powered catenary like the example mentioned above, or you could go cheap and just use thread as the stand-in catenary. A light-green (copper-colored) thread is probably what I would use, and it's only a couple of dollars for 100 yards of the stuff, too. But what you want is up to you, have fun!
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