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What coarseness of ballast should I use for my N gauge layout?
The best coarseness of ballast for N Gauge would be the fine or very fine ballast.
This gives a better scale representation for the N gauge layout.
If you were to use medium or coarse ballast, this would look out of proportion to everything else and be very noticeable.
Just imagine each stone of your ballast is 160 times smaller than the real thing in N gauge. If you measure a grain of model ballast at 1mm wide, this is equivalent to a real ballast stone 16cm wide. Quite large ballast indeed!
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