E-paw's Orphan challenge part 2

[e-paw]

My next neglected project in Easton was to ballast the track work. Most of it looks like this....     That will not do.


I mixed up a batch of ballast from some tile grout, coal dust, dirt, and ground foam.    

It was applied just the same as anyone else would.     I wanted to mimic the type of ballast that the CNJ used on it's L&S division ( the trackage in Pennsylvania). Most of the ballast there in sparse and uneven, so that was the look that I was going for.