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2021 was right on. Two points to add - 1> Take your time with ballast! Small sections at a time will get you better results. Once you wet the ballast and apply glue do not touch the ballast until it is dry, even if you made a mistake. Once dry, you can fix the mistake, otherwise your ballast will get all messed up. Brush ballast into place before wetting and gluing. My gluing solution is roughly 1 part elmers white glue to 3-4 parts water applied heavy (should ooze out of the edges of the ballast onto the plywood or foam board) 2> The only place I use elmer's wood glue after building the benchwork is for gluing cork to the foam board. Using wood glue for scenery is not a good idea. Yes it will hold, but dried wood glue is not clear. It dries yellow and can be seen. Elmer's white glue dries clear and hold just as well. You can stock up on white glue during back-to-school sales. Doing scenery requires a lot of glue, and every penny saved means that much more for another "train" item!
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