How To Ballast Track

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Uploaded by on Mar 24, 2009

A segment on how to ballast track for your HO scale model railroad.

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  • I normally pour the ballast in the center and let it spill over by running my finger down the middle then using a brush to touch up. Afterward's taking the handle of the brush and lightly tapping the rail head's until it's all even and settled in and if done just right you won't have any ballast on the ties after to glue is dried. Also applying the alcohol I found is much easier done with a small spray bottle to mist it on.

  • Huh, maybe try that technique next time I ballast. Thanks!

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  • What does the alchohol do? The video is very informative. Thx.

  • yeh its 50-50 glue water works better with a tuch off soap detergent to break tension thx

  • that works really good sub me please

  • great vid man! thanks for the help.

    the alcohol tip is good!

  • 10-4! Yea, that's the method we use anyway because we lay such a large amount of track at one given time so it help's speed up the process but the way you are putting it down is more suitible because it's a small layout.

  • Yeah, code 83 is just a tad shorter than code 100. It will work the same.

  • hey its supercoolweirdo97 again (different account) hey do you know if code 83 atlas ho track works with thomas

  • Oh, of course. As long as it is not too tight, any HO or OO scale model train will run on it. Say that you have a piece of track that is shaped like a U. If you measure across(from the beginning of the turn to the end of the turn) and it is less that 20 inches, any Thomas model should run on it(or mostly any medium-sized model for that sake).

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