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I haven't run into this problem yet - I don't have a layout! But It might be better to use some of the pre-formed switch roadbeds that have the ties,etc. impressed in them so that the switch would fit into the block to the right depth with out the mess of loose ballast, and still look prototype, which is really, after all is said and done, what you're trying to achieve on your layout! You very seldom see ballast on a prototype railroad on top of the ties around the switches, anyhow. I don't know whether they make such a product but I thought that I had seen something like that somewhere in a magazine or other publication. Good luck with your project!
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