Do Railroad Sidings Use Much Ballast. A siding in rail terminology is a low speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line or branch line or spur it may connect to through track or to other sidings at either end. Passing siding would get stone ballast but that track was rarely cleaned so the stone ballast soon was hard to distinguish from cinder ballast. It s a pain but it makes a differance.
It s a pain but it makes a differance. I then paint my track floquil rail brown.
Sooner or later i will have to deal with ballast in my yard.
I pretty much like how the roseburg yard appears on joe s siskiyou line layout. So the wuestion is now do i just use the same thickness for mainline and siding or should the siding and spurs be the same thickness which in turn would match their height. First i nip off ties about every 5th one on each side of track to cause ties to look uneven. In most photos i see mainline sidings are distinctly lower than the mainline while spurs in comparison to the sidings don t seem that much higher above the spus.
