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Hi vsmith, I live in Minnesota and we also have large temp. swings as high as 110 on rare occasions to 35 below zero durring our all to long winters. ALL of our ballast is bonded in place with CONCRETE BONDING ADHESIVE, not glue, as are two other layouts in our area. All these same layouts have every tie in their hand spiked track fastened to some sort of solid sub roadbed and have not had any trouble worth talking about with the track expanding or contracting. My track is built on SPLINE roadbed made of TREX (www.trex.com) 2-3 feet above the ground and is very forgiving with plenty of flex naturally inherent to spline construction. Another is built on treated boards at ground level and the last is on treated boards elevated 2-3 feet above the ground. And one last NO- NO that I have done without any repercussions of any type is to solder every rail joint on our entire layout. Ours is not a new layout without a track record, 1/3 is over ten years old and the other 2/3 is four years old. If you will notice in my earlier post I suggested using the BONDING ADHESIVE, not glue, around the moving parts of turnouts not the entire track layout. May all your weeds also be wild flowers... OLD DAD
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