Denny,
I grew up in Downers Grove. It was definitely slag ballast and is was
light gray to gray in color.
Bill Barber
On Feb 4, 2007, at 9:38 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Ballast Choices
>
> Posted by: "Denny Anspach" danspach@macnexus.org docdenny34
>
> Sat Feb 3, 2007 1:52 pm (PST)
>
> Some years ago Gerald Edgar reported that the ballast on the CBQ
> mainline between Chicago and Aurora c. 1943 forward into the fifties
> was slag . I presume that this was steel or iron slag, and if so what
> color was it?
>
> What would be the closest HO/N model ballast product to reproduce it?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Denny
> --
> Denny S. Anspach, MD
> Sacramento
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