10-05-2009, 10:50 AM
Sumpter250 Wrote:Clinker, or the "cinders" left when coal burns ( I used to shovel the clinker out of a neighbor's furnace, and dump it behind their garage ), when compacted, and watered, becomes much like concrete...........and around an engine house, where the fires are dumped, IS FREE !!!! so why not "cinders 4" deep on the floor.
Ha! That's pretty cool now that you mention it. So I could model it like concrete and colour it a dark gray or black? The more I thought about it, the more I considered that the floor was some form of hardened compacted surface but still wasn't too sure. I wondered how much sense it would make to have a loose ballast floor when in all likely hood an Engine House would have some heavy equipment inside to work on the locomotives, like metal lathes, grinders, compressors, and other assorted machinery.