What are you guys using for yard and spur bumpers? The Atlas bumpers don't look anything like the bumpers I see on the SP trackage. I made a bumper that kinda looks like an SP bumper out of styrene, but it was a bear to make, and I need a dozen +
Welcome to the Gauge! I use cross ties as that was a common practice here, but then so was no bumbers at all as well as a pile of ballast or peices of rail.
You'll like this Ty, we have a spur off the NS yards running by our house. Used to be the mainline they moved during the massive Lafayette Railroad Relocation project. Part of the goal seems to be to hide this spur. The bumper is a huge mount of dirt, like ten or 20 tons, and they planted flowers on it! NS has gone flower power!!!
I use Cal-scale castings myself but, back in the daze when I wasn't as properous, I used railroad ties shoved under the ends of the rail in an X pattern, just like the local shortline did.
Gary: I've taken those Atlas bumpers you spoke of and cut them off from the rails with a razor saw and then trimmed all the un-prototypical plastic around them. That leaves just the bumper section. Then with paint and weathering they don't look too bad! Then they can be glued to the ends of your spur tracks and filled in with ballast.
Sorry I don't have a picture to show you but there may be other members here who have done the same thing.