This S Scale Dark Gray Track Ballast – Train Scenery 35 oz package consists of miniature pebbles which are real crushed granite stone & the color is gray and dark gray. This works great for model railroad track ballast, train layouts, dollhouse, miniatures & diorama scenery landscaping.  This is commonly used for rockslides, gravel pits and other scenery displays for your S Scale layouts or sidewalk pathways on dollhouse & diorama miniature scenery.

This S Scale Track Ballast – Train Scenery 35 OZ is a great way to complete your model railroad project and add realism to your American Flyer and similar scale train layout, dollhouse scenery, and other craft projects. People will use different amounts depending on techniques used, the desired look of the ballasted track, the particle size of the ballast used, brand of ballast, etc.

Some people lay track ballast right up to the tops of ties while others prefer to have more railroad tie exposed. Smaller particles will require more ballast by weight. There are different types of ballast, but we have found that actual granite rock is easy to lay on the roadbed and makes a very nice, realistic look to your train layout.

The question keeps coming up … how much ballast does it take to ballast model railroad track?

It’s going to vary by scale. In S Scale, one level teaspoon of ballast will do about 1 inch of track. You can test in the other scales to get a similar approximation, my guess (without testing it) would be a level teaspoon of ballast will do two inches of track in N, or half an inch of track in O. This is approximate, and also will vary depending on how much ballast shoulder you do, or if you’re doing sparsely ballasted track such as a lumbering branch or a backwoods yard.

We also offer larger 5 LB bags of S Scale ballast.

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