Wow! look at that ballast profile! Your track looks very nice, excellent rusty rails and that ballast profile is just fantastic!
Thanks Robert, Alan and Richard for your nice comments. Richard there is no secret about the balasting at all. I use a mixture of light grey and brown balast. On the main 2 parts of light grey 1 part of brown, on sidings and yards 1 part of light grey and 2 parts of brown. After the usual balasting method I weather the balast with acrylic paints thinned with a lot of water. I don't weather the balast equal,, some places are weatherd twice other places are not weathered at all, to reassemble newly repaired balast. Paul
On my last layout, I tried a section using a mix of two different ballast colors, but it did not look right, it had a sort of speckled look! But you seem to have mastered the look of very prototypical ballast. Very well done. I must try again with my new trackage
