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Ok, I have a half-built model railway in my room, which has great potential, but unfortunately has been left to deteriorate for at least a year now. The baseboard is fully assembled... the track layout is juat about fine.... the basic wiring is done but none of the switches or point switches have been completed yet.... most of the track is fixed, apart from the branchline track which has all but been pulled apart... I actually even started ballasting aswell.. parts of the track are ballasted, none of the points though. The problem I'm getting now, is that I'm unhappy with what I've got.... it's a great layout.. but there are parts where the ballast has seeped under the sleepers, raising the track, something I'm really uncormfortable with. The ballast I used was of poor quality... it greened with the adhesive used to stick it down. And I really felt I should've done ALL of the wiring and track fixing before I started ANY ballasting at all. The only options I believe I really have are to keep at it, even with all the things that are bugging me, or I could remove the ballast.. a slow process, but it'd enable me to move some stuff around to make me more satisfied with the layout, and join up the sections of track properly (There are many locations in the track where the 2 rails don't meet up fully... not enough to stop trains going over the top.. but enough to visually bug me). Advice would be really appreciated, thanks.
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