My new video includes landscape gluing.
See: Glued Ballast & Landscape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXDYlq8Ips&t=1071s
This might be one of the most useful and practical “How to” garden railroad videos you’ll ever watch. Glued stone material has great potential for new and existing garden railroads, because it is so good, but rarely used. It drastically improves realism and durability, while decreasing maintenance time and costs. When you learn how to glue sand & gravel, you can use this technique all over your railroad for many things including track ballast, terrain and even mountains covered by different sizes of real rocks, gravel, sand and live plants. Its realistic appearance and low maintenance is why the most asked question at Cholla Patch Garden Railroad is: “How do you make your ballast”? This video is my detailed answer to such a great question.
Produced by John Carmichael: Email questions to: [email protected] Cholla Patch Garden Railroad, Tucson AZ on 6/28/26. Feel free to copy, use and modify any of the images or video clips you see here. Please help us spread this useful video with your Garden Railroading friends and organizations.
See more of my Design Construction videos at: Cholla Patch Garden Railroad: https://www.youtube.com/@philpappas8834
And this: The Ultimate Guide to Glued Track Ballast for Garden Railroads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVXB0QC78Lw&t=792s