kasskaboose I too am building a layout with N&W. What area of the country? Have you looked at railroad photos? Without knowing geography and timeframe, providing an answer is near impossible.
I too am building a layout with N&W. What area of the country? Have you looked at railroad photos? Without knowing geography and timeframe, providing an answer is near impossible.
Arizona Rock & Mineral
http://www.rrscenery.com/
Has a color they call "NORFOLK SOUTHERN BRIGHT GRAY"
I have the right to remain silent. By posting here I have given up that right and accept that anything I say can and will be used as evidence to critique me.
As a boy I spent many hours walking along the N & W in Columbus, Ohio and my recollection is that the ballast was a medium gray with some lighter and darker thrown in. In that time frame (1950s) there was probably some darkening of the ballast and surroundings by the inevitable coal soot. I really loved those big articulated engines
Joe
BAllast color depends on what quarry the railroad got its ballast from. And when the got it. You see, the railroad does not care what color the ballast is, but what they can get cheaply, whcih usually means locally. But that quarry closes, or the railroad has some in stock from elsewhere or perhaps from a merger.
Then, how much oil and stuff dose a particular railroad drip onto the tracks. And how long it has been dripping. And how much ice and water cleans up the ballast.
And, NYCT uses SEASHELLS as ballast on the Rockaway line. WEll actually it is the seagulls who drop the little shelled animals onto the tracks to break them open so that they can eat the little animal on the inside. Now the line *does* look like it was ballasted with shells.
LION? What does LION use? LION has 14 miles of track whcih requires a lot of ballast (never mind that most of it is not ballasted,,, him uses CAT LITTER. The cat does not care what color it is, and neither does the LION. BTW: Him uses no glue. Gravit works ok, and is very prototypical.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
i am building and lay out based on the n&w was wondering what color ballast to use. my layout is ho