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REAL ROCK FOR REALISTIC MODEL RAILROADS

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Build more realistic track, terrain, roads, industries, and landscapes with natural rock scenery materials from Arizona Rock & Mineral Co. Our ballast and scenery products are screened into useful model sizes and offered in a wide range of natural colors for N, HO, O, and G scale layouts.

Start by choosing your scale, or browse by the type of scenery you are building.

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Using the right particle size helps the ballast look proportional to the track and rolling stock on your layout.

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Ballast

Natural colors and multiple sizes for mainlines, sidings, yards, and locomotive service areas.

Rocks & Boulders

Create cuts, fills, talus slopes, stream banks, retaining areas, and rugged terrain.

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Browse sand, gravel, coal, coke, ground cover, industrial materials, and the complete catalog.

Why Modelers Choose ARM Ballast

  • Natural appearance: real stone provides authentic color, texture, and variation.
  • Sizes for popular scales: choose material suited to N, HO, O, or G scale.
  • Colors for many prototypes: match a railroad or select a color that fits your layout’s location and era.
  • More than track ballast: use compatible powders, dirt, gravel, rocks, and other materials throughout the scene.
  • Useful package choices: select the quantity that fits a test section, layout project, club, or larger scenery build.

Not Sure Which Ballast to Choose?

First select the correct size for your scale. Next, choose a color that fits the railroad, region, and era you are modeling. Mainlines often use cleaner, more uniform stone, while yards and older sidings may include darker ballast, cinders, dirt, and weathering.

If you are unsure about a color, begin with a small test section. View the material beside your track, structures, and ground cover before completing the entire layout.

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Build the Scene, Not Just the Track

A convincing railroad scene uses more than one texture. Combine ballast with fine soil, sand, gravel, rocks, and powders to blend the track into the surrounding landscape. Slight changes in color and particle size can distinguish a mainline from a yard, an active industry from an abandoned spur, or a maintained road from a dusty service area.

Browse the products below to find the materials that fit your scale and project.

Real rock. Realistic results.

Model Railroad Ballast & Scenery

Natural rock materials screened for N, HO, O and G scale layouts. Find the right size, color and texture for track, terrain, roads and industries.

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Start with your railroad

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NN ScaleFine, scale-sized stoneShop now → HOHO ScaleTrack, yards and scenesShop now → OO ScaleCoarser natural textureShop now → GG ScaleGarden and large scaleShop now →

Build the whole scene

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Layer compatible colors and textures to blend the track naturally into the surrounding landscape.

TrackBallastMainlines, sidings and yards GroundPowdersSoil, dust, roads and weathering TerrainRocks & BouldersCuts, slopes, streams and fills CatalogAll MaterialsBrowse the complete collection

A simple way to choose

Size first. Color second. Test before covering the layout.

  1. 1
    Choose your scaleSelect N, HO, O or G scale for believable particle size.
  2. 2
    Choose the settingMatch a prototype, region and era—or choose what looks right for your scene.
  3. 3
    Build a test sectionCheck the dry color beside your track and scenery before gluing.
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