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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by AltonFan I have heard that Woodland Scenics ballast is made from crushed and dyed nutshells, and as a result, the ballast behaves differently than pulverized stone ballast. Again, I haven't worked with this myself, but a fellow at my LHS complained that ballast didn't fall to the proper shape the way pulverized stone would, and that the crushed nutshell tended to blow away. [/quote] Well, I think the LHS person is full of nuts[:)]. Just due to simple physics, the size of the particles is going to keep scale ballast from falling the same as real ballast would. The same reason one cannot make a "scale" hump yard. I watched a re-ballasting project the other day and the "lay" of prototypical ballast has nothing to do with how it gets dumped out of the hoppers. I think one will just have to develop different techniques of laying their ballast of choice. Buy the way - they make the ballast out of nuts because it is cheaper, lighter, and most importantly they don't have any worries of it being magnetic or electrically conductive. And all scenery stuff blows away, even rock ballast, that is why it gets glued down. [/quote] Okay, I might get laughed at for this, but it sounds like you mean (by the term "prototypical") that ballast comes in scales, which would be news to me. I thought ballast was ballast, no matter what scale you were in. Was I right? Am I misinterpreting this?
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