Texas Southeast Belt

[sailormatlac]

Thanks, Matt!

The old boxes are left-overs from the 1930's sawmill project. The new layout will be early 1950's and although some of these old cars were still in use after WWII, I'll be adding some more "modern" stuff as I get along with the layout. As for the ballast, everywhere you go nowadays you see "gray blend" ballast, both on prototype and model. I can remember when you saw a lot of agate and flint ballast on East Texas tracks, hence the brown ballast... Outside the yard I'll probably stick with the brown, but a bit lighter.

THANKS! for your interest & comments!

It's what I like about 50s, there was a lot of variety in freight car (steel, wood, composite, length, height, etc.) that makes it interesting.

I suspect ballast was produced locally back in the days. Today, they get it from large quarries and aren't bound to local economy anymore. If I wanted to be really prototypical in the same manner as yours, mine would be a bluish gray. Unfortately, each time I tried with the real crushed stone, it turned too dark.

Matt