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I use a mixture of 75% rail brown and 25% rust from Floquil. It produces a color I found on CSX on the W&A sub north of Atlanta, Ga. Note - you need to wear a respirator (about $ 35) to work with Floquil indoors! I thin the paint mixture to 25% paint and 75% Floquil thinner and do the ties and ballast immediately adjacent to the rail. I thin the paint mixture to 10% paint and 90% thinner to bru***he rest of the ballast and ties. This produces a fairly heavy look, which is what that CSX main looked like at the time. If you want a lighter look, like newer ballast, you might use the 10% paint mixture around the rails and skip or 1-2% paint mix the rest. A cool trick is to mimic new ballast track work. Ballast your main except for a gap of about 15% of your total mainline length. Weather this section. Then, place ballast in the gap, and overlap some at the ends of the already weathered ballast. Apply a light or no coat of weathering. You just simulated summer trackwork. You could lay some worn out wooden ties next to the track to make it look like tie replacement was done as well. Happy modeling!
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