I’m Rubbish at Ballasting Track
I’ve avoided ballasting points since the debacle when I was 13 - I saved weeks of pocket money for that point (a left-hand Peco settrack; I can picture it now) only to ruin it nearly as soon as I’d laid it. I couldn’t tell anyone so my one siding ended up a bit of a space invader.
Because of this fear I started ballasting from the edges of this layout. With an intention of building up my skills and confidence by ballasting some straight pieces of track before tackling the points.
When I got to the points I realised that there are gaps at the fishplates and I had to squeeze and pull the straights to lessen the gaps.
Luckily ballasting the points worked, sufficiently, and after a day I tried the point levers again and they didn’t jump around at all.
Then I checked the track and realised I’d miss-fitted one small straight at the end of one of the sidings and the fishplate hadn’t engaged. It’s at the end and only wagons will be going that far, so, I’ll have to live with it.
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