Ballast size to use help

[Lester Perry]

I have been reprimanded for this but it works. I go to local asphalt plant with a 5 gallon bucket and shovel. Tell them I want to buy a bucket full of stone dust. After some funny looks they tell me to just go get it, no charge. I then take it home sift it through a piece of screen toss the big stuff and I have free ballast. You be the judge of how it looks





There is small pieces of iron in stone dust that supposedly cause problems some way. I have never had any trouble and I have a lot of it on my layout.



I is all glued down well enough that I can use a vacuum cleaner hose to clean my layout.
Les