I used ME uncoated Code 148. Excellent product. It flexed and bent without issues. Mine is nickel silver for better electrical conductivity at the far end of the layout. I used a Dremel to stagger the rail joints when I installed it. The rail web required painting after installation but that was easy to accomplish. The black tie Atlas seems to be modeled after European track. Where the tie plates are, there are what appear to be Pandrol rail clips. (My Atlas was older so I do not know what the present Atlas looks like.) I also used Atlas turnouts as they were the only ones I found that did not have to be assembled, and that was a mistake. I powered each frog with Atlas snap relays, and that was another mistake. These relays simply do not have the horsepower to handle momentary currents in the range of 2-3 amps, such as would occur when an incandescent lighted passenger train passes over the frog. They also are not good at handling 18VDC that is required to operate the MTH 2 rail locomotives in my collection using the DCS system, even though all of my MTH engines operate at less than one amp. (I do not use smoke.)
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