Track painting

Now that the track laying is done, I’ve begun to paint the track. The ties of the flex track and turnouts are a shiny black and the rail is shiny on the sides, not realistic. I broke out the Paasche airbrush and used some thinned flat latex enamel wall paint and went to town. Years ago, Dom and I would use Floquil rail brown paint to color the track. The Floquil was expensive, hard to clean up and very odiferous. The paint I used today is odor free, cleans up with water and was FREE! Let me explain, 10 years ago, Ace Hardware had an offer to get a free quart sized sample of their new paint. I took some of the Floquil rail brown, painted a swatch on a card and then color matched the swatch to the sample. On the CWI, I painted a little bit of the lower level mainline with this paint.

After the paint dried, I used a wood block to scrape the top of the rails. A quick wipe with a kerosene dipped rag and all was clean.

I also ran the first train through the Iliana Tunnel from Illinois into Indiana.

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Next, I start on the track in Illinois.