Model Train Ballasting

Model Train Ballasting

How to Improve Your Model Train Track by Adding Ballast

So you’ve lain down your model train set and you realise there is something wrong with the track – yes that right there is no ballast there like you see on prototype railways. On the prototype the track ballast forms the bed upon which the railway sleepers are laid and it is the challenge of a model train enthusiast to replicate this effect. If we look in more detail at what is going on then we can see that the ballast is used to facilitate the drainage of water and to distribute the load on the sleepers and there is also the added benefit that the ballast acts as a barrier to weeds and other vegetation growing and interfering with the trains.

So how do we go about creating this effect on our model train layout? ... click here for more



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Model Train Ballasting