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The whole pieces of rail beside the track is a good idea. Especially after a MOW crew has relaid a section, you'll find stacks of old ties, individual ties scattered, gauge plates, sections of rail lying parallel to the track. <br />If you can get your hands on some steel shavings, like the kind you'd find at a machine shop, they make good scrap metal piles. So does old watch parts, parts from disposable lighters (the flint mechanism looks like gears). <br />If you have a coal mine industry, scatter a little coal along the sides of your track. If you walk along a main line that serves a coal-hauling RR you alway find lots of it from where it spills out of the hoppers
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