Well, I finally got the area beside my warehouse ballasted with crusher fines, ready for a spur track and a mainline track to go in now that the weather is a bit warmer.
When I went outside to inspect the ROW, I found the ballast to be disturbed in a number of spaces. I went out later in the day and discovered BB the beagle burying her bone in the ballast. She’s caught in the act on these photos, showing her covering the hole by nosing the ballast over the bone so it’s safe from predators.
Now I’ve got to figure something out before the track goes down. Perhaps I’ll firm up the ballast with concrete bonding adhesives.
It’s possible that there is no problem! Once track is laid BB may not be able to dig there and will find your wife’s bulb border to dig in! Concrete bonder ought to work though!
Beagles dig, it is in their breeding, nothing can be done to stop it, short of removing the dog from your life. If that is not an option, then the cayenne pepper should help, you will need to reapply it as needed. Concrete bonding will adversely affect the drainage ability of the subroad bed you worked so hard to put in. Another option might be to get one of these “electronic dog fences”, you bury a wire a few inches in the ground (a transmitter), put a special collar on the dog (a receiver) and when the dog gets too close to the buried wire there is a small shock applied by the collar, after a few shocks the dog learns not to go there anymore.
