@EMD posted:Has anyone ever drilled small holes in the bottom of the Atlas O rail and soldered on a tinned wire?
I has seen this done with O Scale 2 Rail track
Nope. Our whole layout was Atlas solid nickel silver track. I had an old Dremel with a pointed rotary file bit, and used it to remove any/all coating on the rails. I soldered EVERY SINGLE RAIL JOINT. In fact, we had to solder 3 or 4 sections of that Atlas flex track together, and took 5 guys to bend that into place! Without soldering each and every rail joint, the daened stuff would kink, and bend the rail joiners. Thus, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was soldered together on the entire layout.
Power drops were all soldered to the inside, i.e. away from the viewer, of each rail. Later rail gaps were cut with a razor saw. No electrical problems!
