Larry wrote: Many thanks to the posters about ballast. Very helpful NG! After scraping away unwanted ballast, I'm now concerned that future ballasting will look a lot better - and won't match previous bad sections!! A good problem to have.
--------------------------------------------------- It's more prototypical to have sections of "newer" ballast. You could even have a scene where the newer, better appearing ballast is located with maintenance personnel and equipment to indicate that the section was recently reballasted.
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