149th Street Harlem Station

[sailormatlac]

Great quality work at a tremendous high speed Further comments about my speed will be forwarded to you for professional handling

.....Finally, I also started to ballast tracks with several material taken in the backyard: sand, dirt and some wood coal. My first mix add too much fine powder. It really makes it hard to glue. I finally decided to resift the dirt several time outside in the wind to get rid of the fine particles and keep the rocks......

That is a nasty problem because the prototype dirt and ballst around the tracks is closer to dust and mud than to ballast stones (remember my question ?). It helps if the fine ballast is very heavy, Light fine ballast is nasty to glue down. It like to swim on top of the glue. I got therefor heavy fine N scale ballast. The fine particles from the backyard are required to look like the prototype but they are not heavy enough.

Reinhard, I have no problem with floating particles, but the dust is so dense it absorbs hardly the liquid. You're right, dusty and muddy ballast seems to have been standard until only a few decades ago. I'm on my way to my local park to see if I can find something better suited.

Matt