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I'm really having a "Do..ah!" moment. The aluminum strips laid flat across the drive is really doing the same thing we do in the 7 1/2" gauge engine house. We have 3/8" x 1" flat bar screwed to the concrete floor. It works great and you don't have the problem of them sticking up in the way to trip on. You can roll the mower, wheel barrow, auto, or what ever over them an not worry about damaging them or throwing them out of gauge. As long as the thickness is as much or more than the flange hieght it will work great and be only barely noticable. The only problem might be making the transition from flatbar to regular track. A possible on that would be to notch the end of the fat bar the thickness of the rail and drill and screwthe rail end to the flatbar. Another possibility is make the flat bar out of brass. then you could solder or braze the rail to the flatbar.
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