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Photo 2
My friend Carl Barna asked about my use of ballast on my Fn3 Oahu Sugar Company. Here is how I answered him:
Good question – I assume you are asking about my Fn3 Oahu Sugar Company.
- I examined many photos of Oahu – both of agricultural areas and railroad roadbed
- The earth in Oahu seems to be red – see Photo 2
- I never saw any ballast on this line – remember, plantation railroads were poorly maintained as were many narrow gauge railroad
- Also recall that there would be no ballast in tracks that were laid temporarily in sugar cane fields – plantation field tracks were laid almost the way a child would lay his Lionel sectional track on the living room carpet.
- So I used no ballast on my layout except on a swing-out gate or duck-under if one chooses.
- I was going to leave it un-scenicked but then got carried away and scenicked it and used some O scale ballast I had on hand.
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