Here's a question for those more expert in the prototype!
My rearmost three sidings (in the photo above) are freight sidings. Should I ballast them, hardstanding them / combination of both?
My plan is to have a gantry road/rail crane over the closest siding, for transferring containers to trucks, etc, as well as some container lifter vehicles, but the sidings will also be used to house cement, timber, tara mines wagons, etc....
Any ideas?
(I guess I'm trying to be lazy about 9.5 feet x 3 )