granite flatcars

[Bill Gill]

There's a bit of a granite quarry on the back edge of the C&VRR. Finally 3 Bachmann Civil War era flat cars have just been somewhat updated and upgraded, turning them into rolling stock dedicated to captured service hauling chunks of granite to processing sites imagined further up the line.

[lab-dad]

Nice!
Is that real granite or simulated?
MJinTN

[Bill Gill]

Martin, It's extruded Styrofoam insulation and craft paints. The chunks of foam were broken rather than cut and any weird bits were sanded away.
The look matches the rest of the "granite" in the quarry pit.

[TRAINS1941]

Nice job on that granite Bill.

Jerry

[Bill Gill]

Thanks, Jerry.
There's lots of granite around here to look at for reference