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[quote user="HOnewcomerJ"]ence, model rr track that has thin ties, (not square), is ready to look good on cork roadbed.  But now, years later, modelers are adding ballasting material to their railroads, AFTER installing the track, building it up inbetween the ties. This makes the top of the ties about level with the balasting "stones".  So my first questions is, why haven't modellers insisted that manufactures make the ties square, so the end result would be realistic? About 1/2 the thickness of the ties would be buried in their ballasting and 1/2 would still be visible above the ballasting.  (I suppose the ony way to get that effect would be to ballast first and then install track on top of the ballasting.  That's never going to work!  The track will never lay level so trains can run smoothly on it).[/quote] Code 83 ties are square.   For bridges, check out Micro-Engineering and Central Valley. Bridge ties are actually slightly larger.  I believe they are 10"x10".
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