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Dwayne, Not going to be able to help a real lot on the color of the ballast because that changes from reagon to reagon. It all depends on what type of limestone is available. Some times "Slag" from steel mill blast furnaces was used cinders from power plants was common on sideings. Lime stone can ranger anywere from the gray spectrum to a almost sandy color to an aqua-blue depending on were it can from and the mineral content of it. Some lime stone is almost white. A very common size for ballast around the ties is about the size of your fist. A filled in under cut may have Grape fruit sized ballast under the fist sized stuff. For me, working in HO, the medium sized medium gray seems pretty universal. And the dark gray and the medium gray of the medium size mixed together is a good look for under cuts. Hope I helped..........Jamie
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