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If you are going to have visitors operate your layout at some time, it is easier for them to determine which is the main and which the siding or passing track if the main is one color and the siding another. The main quite often _is_ a different color because it is better and more frequently maintained. (For this reason, the main is usually higher than the siding too.) So the ballast on the main is likely to be newer and possibly from a different quarry than that which produced the ballast on the siding. In any case, the siding ballast is likely to be dirtier than that on the main which will affect the color.
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