Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

Started ballasting Mud Run until I ran out of glue. 

First used full strength glue on the edges of the cork roadbed and got a good "tooth" on that edge by applying ballast into that glue, letting it dry and then vacuuming up the extra into a sock in the end of my Shop Vac.  I then applied liberally over the ties and tried to level it all to the tops of the ties and having the extra migrate off the edge of the roadbed.

I'm using Woodland Scenics ballast, that I think is made from walnut hulls, so it tends to float when you apply the whetting agent or the glue.  So, even if you spend a good bit of time leveling out the ballast and getting it where you want it, it can migrate and stick in all the wrong places.  In "How to Build Realistic Model Railroad Scenery", Dave Frary cautions us to use only ballast made out of rock, and the floating is the reason.  However, I think I have 4 bags of this stuff to get rid of before I order something else.  So, after it full dries and I can get my ShopVac on it, it'll be time to pick and poke stray pebbles off of the ties and rail flanges with my Xacto knife while wearing my Optivisor.  Fun times indeed!