As of tonight I have all the ballasting done from Ruston to Winnfield. There's just a little left near the yard entrance and it will probably stay that way until I get the track and area around Union Scrap finalized.
A- Mainline heading South through the backdrop to Haskell.
B- Mainline heading North through Winnfield.
C- Is a cutoff I installed to bypass the yard, which I may remove from the crossing to the backdrop?
D- is the spur for Union Scrap
I think the Brown paint turned out nice and now with the ballast applied, it still shows up nicely.
If you look closely you can see where I applied the black and gray Tamiya Panel liner to the look of sunbleached and fresh ties in this area.
It took very little work to clean the track after the ballasting was complete this time. I took care not to flood the track with glue and then I used a small square of #600 sandpaper and lightly wiped the top and inner head of the rails, then I came back with the Woodland Scenics track cleaner and polished it good.
The loco ran pretty good with the exception of a few spots and two of the points which I used the #600 paper again and inserted it between the point rail and stock rail and moved the paper back and forth a few times.
After wiping down the railheads, I quickly applied a couple swipes of my graphite stick and viola! the loco ran smooth as butter. The more I use graphite the more I like it.
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