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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor Troy I am most impressed with its straightness and length, also the way you have elevated looks like good work to me. However i am interested in if you are going to ballast it or not. I have come to the conclusion that for me, I would not have a single metre of track that is not ballasted, it seems to detract from how they run on it to me. Regrads ian PS Joe I was interested in your idea of why people migrate to North America, we mostly had no choice here; we came as convicts in sailing ships in chains. Did youi know that Australia was settled as a direct result of the American War of Independence? [/quote] I too will do heavy ballasting, I plan to have two types...utility ballast and decorative ballast. The Utility Ballast is to hold the track in place and promote good elevation...decorative ballast will be some fine grade stuff/ A mixture of textures of HO/N scale ballast to give a more realistic presence. I might even experiement with cinders. As for the issue of American/Aussie Colonization... I will mention this fact to the students. I cannot resist taking advantage of the international flare in this forum. We began today with a discussion of the political reasons people came to America which we were able to break down to "people running from the government (fugitives/rabble-rousers) and those who could not run fast enough (criminals and debtors). This led us to a discussion of James Oglethorpe's Georgia colony which served as a buffer state against Indian attack and defacto prison colony. Your contribution on Aussie colonization will be a good focus activity tomorrow. Hey, good history lesson for children sneaking into this forum... ...and that's one to grow on!
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