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    Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos —Jason Spears
   (...) Very nice work. Is this the first show you all have done with ballasted track? Looks very good. With all of that ballasted, I suppose your track lines and yard are fairly fixed, no? I think I may "borrow" that cow design. I see that someone is (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
   
        Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos —Ted Michon
   (...) Yes. We had and "event" in which members spent a day putting down ballast, but in the end Susan Michon did about 90% of the work (and has the dimpled thumbs to prove it). We use mosaic kits from LLCA and have been chastised for buying them out (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
   
        Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos —Jason Spears
   (...) Interesting. How much rework would you have to do, with the switches and curves? MichLTC is looking at ballasting right now and it seems like a LOT of permeatations would have to be prepared. Or rework before an event. (...) Oh, I guess I (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
   
        Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos —Ted Michon
     (...) The jury is out, of course, since this is the first time we have done ballasting. My feeling is that we will be able to reuse quite a bit even with big changes. The primary reason we used ballast this time is because we wanted a big meandering (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
    
         Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos - ballast —Mark Bellis
     (...) I've been using the bags of grey and dark grey plates, where one bag does either one straight plus one curve or one switch. This one is plain grey: (URL) This one is an experiment in adding tan 1x1s to change the colour of the track bed, (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
   
        Re: SCLTC FRRD 2005 Photos —Didier Enjary
   (...) "them" are Jason Allemann (URL) and Erik Amzallag (URL) Regards, Didier Enjary (20 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
 

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