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Message: <blockquote data-quote="u235" data-source="post: 1136599" data-attributes="member: 1485">I think what you are looking for is Australian jarrah, eucalyptus marginata. Many railway sleepers here were made out of it - they imported it in large quanitities as our local wood supplies dwindled. I saw a brand new one as recently as 1985. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />It looks a bit like olive, a warm dark yellow or often a honey colour, often with streaks of black in it. It isnt oily. Apart from grease and the inevitable foul stuff dropped by steam engines and toilets, sleepers were sometimes treated with carbolineum under pressure, so they have that stinky black pitch look about them, and those are useless for furniture - you cant plane it off as it penetrates everywhere. Yellow wood hasnt been used those since the twenties and those that werent lifted when concrete sleepers were introduced will have rotted as they have no natural insect resistance. A yellowwood sleeper is extremely rare now, dont even bother looking.</blockquote>