With a long interest in model railways, I was recently reading the July edition of British publication railway Modeller and found an interesting article on Peak Forest station. The author Paul Dunn presents details on how to model this industrial siding. This real life station complex handles limestone hopper car traffic from the mines at Tunstead in Derbyshire England. The connection with corrosion became very obvious when I reached the section on rolling stock. Some of them present at the location are described as not being in "wonderfully pristine condition". Railway modelers use the words pristine and weathered to describe the extremes of the visual condition of rolling stock. Progression from the pristine condition to the weathered is obviously termed weathering. Weathering of a model is made by using painting schemes to mimic color fading of paint coatings, dirt contamination and rusting. In fact you can buy custom faded, dirt and rust color paints for the purpose. I became more determined to find out how environmental corrosion could be visually modelled.
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