If you modeled this ballast, nobody would believe it. http://tonka.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2031074 http://tonka.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2031101 The green carpet is growing grain that has fallen out of leaky cars taking root.
Tony- Great shot. I now know what to show people when they ask about my sloppy use of ground cover out of the shaker. Interesting track coming out of the turn. Pete has posted some shots of track that looked like that. I have a lot like that, as well, but a more fragile ego.
Every track that is not maintained on a regular basis and handles grain traffic looks like that. Cool shots.
Kansas City Southern's main line around Heavener, OK is like that to an extent- it's not lack of maintenance, but grain leaking out of cars. CSX's Manchester Subdivision in Georgia (which can see 40 trains a day) also has this in spots.
