Thanks guys.
Glad I could help Steve. Basically, thats why I did a step by step. To help the new guys out. Like I said in the beganning though, I'm sure there are folks here with other methods of scratchbuilding with plastic, probably better than mine.
Anyway, this is what I did after work today. Unfortunatly, in my hurriedness..I forgot the camera, so these are the finished pics.
This first one shows the ballasting of the track. The near one is the mainline, so I ballasted it as if it was maintained ok. The one closest to the depot is the siding, this one I made to look less maintained, by lightly ballasting and appling WS ground foam to the top. Ballasting was accompished by the tried and true method of 50/50 mix of Elmers and water with a couple drops of dish detergent added.Before appling the glue I sprayed the ballast til it was soaked, with 70% alcohol.