I am wiring the two storage tracks that I have laid down, so far. I am also about ready to hand lay some track that is apart of the new layout and passing through my one hand laid turnout. This track leads to the next Turnout that is a curved Left Hand #6 and I'm not sure I'm ready to do a curved Turnout and don't want to buy a Jig for building one. I have found one problem when going from my Atlas Brand Flex Track to hand laid track. That is that the two don't line up correctly. The hand laid tracks ties are thicker and therefore the hand laid track is higher by .060 or close to 1/16th of an inch. It's interesting that this fact is never mentioned in Fast Tracks literature! I am tending to believe that Fast Tracks took their Tie dimensions from actual Railroad Tie dimensions and that Atlas looked at Tie dimensions as only length and width and thickness could be what they felt to be visually good enough. Because ties will be buried in ballast, the tie's thickness did not matter. I have never worked with any other manufacturers track. So, a question for everyone is: Does Atlas, Bachmann, Micro Engineering and other Manufacturers track match up, is the thickness of the track from the bottom of the ties, to the top of the rails the same with all manufacturers? My guess is that it does. Otherwise, we'd be hearing complaints that I have never heard.