The rebirth of the Canyon State RR

[Charlie B]

Got a kick out of Amazon. Just did a search for "model railroad ballast", and found that they were selling a bag of ballast without "expert installation" for $7.99. Optional installation was $114.03/unit more though. That also included reinstalling the light fixture. A real bargain, somebody puts down your track ballast and fixes you florescent lights as well (it's in the description).

My concern is that after the ballast is down, changes get a bit difficult. But then, wait too long and that's not easy to do either. I'll be a while before I get to that point anyway, I just hope that once I do get it all down, that there are no changes or surprises after that.

Don. I glue mine down with a mixture of 50% Elmers white glue and 50% windshield washer fluid. any time I need to lift a section a liberal spray of windex and in 5 minutes the section will lift right out, then I scrape the leftover up and maybe even shop vac whats left.  Ballast so close to the min here is cheap even though they doubled the price from 5 dollars a ton to 10.