Attaching track to foamboard?

[RobertInOntario]

I'm considering soldering my tracks now, before I even finish detail painting and weathering the tracks, as I'm sure paint will get in the joints and cause problems too

Thanks... I'm thinking this is a good thing to do to avoid problems in the future. I had painted & weathered the track on my previous layout & that may have caused some of its current problems as well.

This is such a small layout -- roughly 3x5' -- that soldering shouldn't take up too much time.

Some of my older locos -- that have larger-flanged wheels & don't run as smoothly as the brand new ones -- didn't run that well on my old layout but seem to run fine on this new one. So I'm thinking the current is quite good on this one and I want to keep it that way!

BTW, neither layout is DCC -- they're both conventional, old-fashioned DC which is fine for me.

Rob