So, I made a rookie mistake... even though I've been in the hobby for over 30 years. I out-smarted myself thinking that my track plan was "final" and used Locktite PowerGrab to attach my track to the cork roadbed. 

Has anyone had any success getting this stuff to give up its grip? So far, the few locations that I've tried to rework wound up with me destroying said piece of Atlas code 55 track.

Ideas?

This is a bit of a "dummy check" question to make sure I understand how these work. It has four wiring connections, when held horizontally, one at each end for the "main frogs" and one on each side for the "side frogs". The frogs on each end are wired to the switch machine contacts (or Frog Juicer) on the opposite end, the side frogs don't change polarity so just go to the track bus wires?

Querying space between tracks in small yard..  photo below is what I planned but compared to the 2nd photo I seem to have to put the tracks closer. what would be best practice here.

When I visited my good friend Michael Rose the other day we were discussing rail colors and he said "I don't like the rail color on your layout - it's too red."  My layout does have two different rail colors where I switched from ??? color which was a more reddish color to the Tamiya XF-64 Red/Brown color which is a little browner.