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HO Ballast - Fine, Medium, or Coarse?
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<p><font color="#000000">Well that's interesting, fine ballast seems to be the general consensus (or at least fine to medium). As my opening post stated, I used medium on my first layout and thought it was too big. I took a real good look at my fine ballast and I must agree that it looks very good.</font></p><p>I like that idea of putting a scale figure in the ballast! Some of the ballast I've seen in real life is as small as the gravel you often see used in driveways.</p><p>I bought fine cinder for my yard and service area, fine brown for the Putnam Division mainline and fine gray for the Harlem Division mainline. I did my research on the net and those were the colors I found that were used by my prototypes. I found it odd that two divisions of the same railroad used two different colors (or types) of ballast. They were only a few miles away from each other. Nonetheless, it'll make for good modelling.</p>
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