#ballast : any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness

- French: lest

- German: der Ballast

- Italian: zavorra

- Portuguese: balastro

- Spanish: lastre

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Ballast Frustration

Ballasting track is a well-known method for stopping it from working any longer. Most of the track on Pembroke was ballasted before any rail went down. The exception was the parts that are most likely to fail after ballasting – turnouts, specifically the switch.

Knowing the risks I faced, I took it slow and only ballasted one switch. The first switch, of course, as the train enters Pembroke, and the one that gets thrown on literally every movement. Things were going fine: I’d carefully wetted the area with alcohol, and mixed up some glue, but when I applied the glue, it didn’t want to settle into the ballast. I added more moisture, then a little more, and then left it for a bit, and threw the switch back and forth a number of times while the glue was setting. Then I went to bed.

By morning, the switch was no longer serviceable. The glue is just white glue, and it should succumb to re-wetting, but I’ve spent hours over the course of many sessions this week wetting it, manipulating the switch stand, and pushing the points over by hand. After a few hours of this, one of the points let go. I went to bed again.

Nobody remembers because it was early in the life of the layout, but the first two turnouts are actually on the window sill. There is a cunning mechanism rabbetted into the underside of the 1/2″ roadbed transmits the motion from the Bullfrog beneath the layout to both the switch rods and the switch stand. Even I don’t recall what it looks like, and I can’t find a photo to help. I’m hoping that is not the problem!

To make matters worse, the glue never did settle into the ballast properly, and remains on the surface as a shiny sheen. That evening of ballasting will live in infamy as one of my least successful railroading nights!

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