Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

After re-establishing that I can run trains (thanks for noting my persistence, Tom!), it was back to the foreground of Mud Run.  After the base coat of brown stuff, it was time to add some underbrush.  I went back to the well on cutting up different moss and clump foliage, dabbing on some wood glue and jamming and fitting the underbrush into position.

   

And here she is for now.  This curve has gone from the un-sceniced area of my layout to a showplace in a relatively short period of time.

   

Tomorrow I'll suck off all the extra underbrush with my ShopVac and give stuff a haircut before putting in some decent sized bushes and understory trees.  I'm not going to put a whole lot of trees in the foreground since I have to reach over them if there's a derailment.  I also figure that once upon a time the railroad probably tried to keep the trees off of the banks, and there probably would have been some flooding in this region that would have discouraged growth of larger trees. Trees will also hide view of the trains, but it's a balancing act that I'll play around with until I like the look.