There was a company, Halwa? I think, that was selling handmade turnouts through Aspenmodel.com, where the rails were glued down with contact cement to the lasercut plywood tie strips, but they don't last long.
There were several Nn3 modelers who had purchased them for their modules out here, and over a year or 2 the contact cement turns from rubber to a brittle dried out rubber band material, then cracks and the rails fall off.
The hard core modeler will use all PC Board ties. I use 1 per inch myself, and that works ok. Lesson learned is Expansion Joints, or keep your modules out of extreme temperature ranges.
I ruined 3 modules of handlaid track and turnouts by operating in the California Sun for several hours at a garden party. Trains were running great for a few hours, then in the afternoon things got ugly. Trains were derailing and operating in surges, at which time an examination of the track showed it had all came up from the ballast, and the rails were warped and bent. The turnouts were twisted pretzels.
Stagger your expansion joints every 12", and at room temperature they should be .02" wide, and have a rail joiner to keep them aligned. You can grind off the sidewalls of the rail joiners so they are not so noticeable.
