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I got some excellent advice a while back on modeling spare/replacement rail along the ROW in N-scale, and I thought I'd bounce another question off the forum. Again in N-scale, I've been searching for a way to model piles of tie plates, which are another extremely common sight around any railroad MOW office or yard. I've considered simply using squares of .005" styrene and painting and rusting them to get the color right, but the shape wouldn't look right (the holes for the spikes and the center "cradle" for the rail would be missing - the plates underneath the pile would be OK but those on top wouldn't have the surface detail needed). Might anyone have ideas?
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