Originally Posted by Zett:
Thanks Matt. So then I should screw the track into the cork, but not all the way down into the wood substructure correct? Glue the cork to the wood, and then screw the track into the cork?
That's it. Dennis is right about gluing ballast. It will hold track pretty well, except maybe tightly-bent Atlas flex. We had to do a realignment and had to use denatured alcohol to dissolve the ballast holding the track in place (it also attacked the cork underneath.)