QUOTE I had one box of steel "flexible" track. It seemed to have the unique property of being able to oxidise faster than any other rail type known to man
From the land that build the Lancia what would you expect? I am certain that at some point a Lancia designer watched the film "Alien" and decided that he could design a car that would desolve faster than the Nostradamus.
Lima did move to nickel silver and stainless steel track so they were probably aware of the addiction that Lima steel had to the red stuff.
QUOTE As i recall the lima track had a fondness for coming away from the sleepers easily.
Now I thought that was Hornby Dublo 2 rail track? Whilst this (Hornby Dublo) really was the finest OO two rail track ever made I didn't realise it had a distant cousin. If you can find some decent Hornby Dublo 2 rail use that over Lima any time.
Now tell me again why it would be a bad move to introduce scale P4 track to the masses?
Happy modelling
Gary