Love your ballast spreader. Using alcohol instead of water will greatly reduce your 30 hour drying time. Thank you Daryl. Love your work. My wife and I end our Sunday evenings with your weekly update.

Thanks Daryl , real helpful tips on ballasting and it’s looking fantastic 👍🇦🇺

Awesome to see the layout up and running.

That tool makes ballasting a lot easier. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Daryl, thanks for the tidbit on loose ballast sitting in the center of concrete ties. I have to ballast a few pieces of concrete tie track this week and probably would have been trying to keep it clean like the wood ties. I checked the area I am modeling on Google maps and it has the same look, a small bit of ballast in the center. Nice work!

INCREDIBLE! You're a ballasting machine!

HI DARULY Looks great thx for the post.😊😊👍👍

Looking good

For some reason AOL usually gets rid of any comments I make but here I go. I always will find out where the tunnel will be and I will ballast these areas first so the entrance to the tunnel will be ballasted and this is so much easier. I also use the school white glue and never have had any problems with the slight shine...I love the fact that it is water soluable in case I want to change any track. I like your ballasted track. If I had any problems with the track it would be that I feel that this kind of track is just to high. I have lived in Laramie and have seen a lot of track and the base seems to be more shallow than I see here.

Spraying with water is to help with the capillary action of the diluted white glue...though it appears that now the medium of choice is IPA(isopropyl alcohol) vs the old school method of adding dish soap to water.

Looks great! I had seen the dispenser advertised, but didn't know if it works. Sure looks like it does.

Hi Daryl, that really finishes the great job you're doing !

Really turned out well! Looks fantastic! Nice job Daryl - thanks for sharing 🤠

Your layout start to look sooooo Wyoming.

Fantastic work

Great job with your Ballast. Come and do mine!!!!! Mike HO from Aussie

Excellent work, bud!!

Looking good! Use small fans. They will speed up the drying time in half.

Looks great.

looking good. Your layout is coming along nicely. I am enjoying watching it come together.

Looks great! Keep up the good work!

Not sure if you considered it or not but we did a water/glue mixture for our club so we don’t have to soak the layout when we glued

hello daryl it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy

Nice job Daryl it is looking good, ballast makes a big difference

Great looking work as it moves along further! Followed your N Scale layout as well. Now all you need to finish up everything is a good weathering guy like myself to realistically weather up the rolling stock!

Love it….

To bad that spreader didn't have coupler on it and a few of the engines dragging it along, to help spread the ballast out on the layout.

Looks great Daryl, what a difference ballast makes too. It turned out really good, glad I'm not the only one who uses my fingernails to knockdown ballast! 😆- Steve

I have a similar unit, another company makes a brush unit that you run after the spreader to remove most of the ballast off the ties, but looks like no longer made. It appears they added a brush to their spreader, Golden Valley Hobbies a UK company. Tapping the rails can also move ballast off the ties and rails.

Looking Awesome

Excellent job on the ballasting, Daryl. I think I may have to get a ballasting tool since it looks so easy use. When you add the static grass, are you planning on adding some in the ballast to make it look like the ballast has been there a bit (more natural), or are you going to keep the ballast baren/clean of plants or weeds?

You will need some snow fence for the true Wyoming look.

Your railroad just gets better each week. At the control points, do you ballast on the tracks just the outside or none at all?

If there was some way you could hook it up to the train and let it do the work that would be cool 😏

Oh Snap!!! It’s coming together I’m so happy for your progress

Hi,daryl!enjoyed your ,,midnight show,, as usual.,you might as well have twice weekly.great going with that ballasf dispenser! As im doing more or less the same scenes but of course in ,,n,, scale i was wondering about that extra tunnel on the high line youve included, on my ,,train hopping,, and ,,big boy animation,, videos i notice theres a tunnel on the low line between curvo and wahsatch.,not referring to the abandoned bore.maybe you could give us some info on these ?? Much obliged.

Daryl, the ballast really brought it to life, so to speak, now everything you add is going to be icing on the cake so to speak. I enjoyed seeing the 2442 trailing in the consist of the mixed manifest. I shot the 2422 in Kansas City, KS in 2009 in very fresh paint.

IMO. I have always looked forward to ballisting, as it makes the track look like a railroad, & looks complete. That machine looks like it does a good job, too.The prototype, always looks fairly "manacured" but as long as it looks good, overall, it will be fine. Nobody is ever going to look over your empire, & say that piece of ballist, just there, dosnt look right. As long as the OVERALL effect is right, Your ballisting does look right. I picked up a few tips, as I will soon be "in that boat", & honesyly. I cant wait. Thanks Daryl. Michael NZ

Awesome Daryl 😎, nice ballasting, you must buy the ballast by the carton or pallet 😊

Great video...

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It really is a game changer! Awesome effect. I was wondering why it is the last part of doing the track - That is how it is done in real life, ballast is laid over scenery.

Looking good Daryl - try a small fan - 6-9" it will help dry the ballast faster - usually overnight ..

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Beautifull job ! Will you remove the nails that hold the tracks after it's completely dry ?

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