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In N scale rails can be glued to the roadbed with “White Glue” if you ever need to lift the track spray it with wet water. It is unusual these days to “fix” track with spikes or track nails as a permanent fixing, but if you do when using proprietary flex track, a spike every 6″ or so is sufficient, into the middle of the “tie”. Most brand have a blind hole in the centre to facilitate track spiking.
If you place the “fixed” rail on the outside of the curve, you will not have to cut off (and waste) as many rail ties.
I lay mine from a switch cutting about 3″ from the free rail and just pull the next rail into that track. This stagers the joints and you only need to cut once at the next switch. Keep the free rail on the inside of most of your curves.