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Reply to "To ballast or not to ballast"

Buco, I come from a background in HO trains with as close to realistic scenery as the person can accomplish.  In that regard, ballast was a "must".  But now 50 years after starting my first HO layout, you can see I am in O gauge 3-rail.  I am now seeing the benefits of not ballasting.  I am starting to build a layout with GarGraves track and realistic scenery, but I'm holding out on ballasting for a while.  Maybe I never will.  As others have said, I think your layout looks great as it is.  It has that traditional toy train look.  Since you have the ballast, I agree with others, lay down some track on a spare piece of wood, ballast it, and see what you think.

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