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The GGRW is only two years on the ground and the ballast has yet to entirelly filter into the base gravel. I reballasted the GGRW two times in 2003. I use "crusher fines". The method I usuallly use is a no nonsense method of piling the crusher fines evenly upon the rails and spraying it down with a pnuematic garden sprayer. A garden hose would have too much force. I think in about 2 more years the crusher fines will have no place to go and will be solid. By that time I will have a more track layed down, so I will be reballasting for sometime into the future. Thankfully, my daughter enjoys helping out in ballasting and is quite good at it. Being only 12 years old, she does alot of good work for the line. She has alot to do with making the GGRW what it is today. BTW. I purchase my "crusher fines" from The Home Depot for $3.00/50lb bag. That amount of stone will do about half of my railway. I enjoy reballasting because it enhances the realistic look of the rail. Most of the awesome comments I get about the garden railway involve how realistic the track appears. Embrace reballasting. It is one of the things that links our minature railroads to the prototypes. If you don't ballast then you are not really putting down the rail in true fashion!! Pete
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