02-16-2015, 09:16 PM
I use the HO Center Line car with Aero track cleaning fluid.
I also have a collection of track erasers and such for really stubborn stains. (I'm recycling track on my layout and some goes back to the early 70s, possibly to the 60s.)
I recently splurged on the WS track cleaning kit with tons of pads and a stick. (I found that I need to buy a separate stick if I need length). This did a good job on my wife's Lionel track and the On30 line. Haven't got to the G yet.
I have some of the pads that drag from the axles (HO) but I don't know how well they work.
I've also used pieces of wood to scrape the rails.
When I was young, I saw someone cleaning tinplate track with carbon tetrachloride and emery paper. Then my mother read about carbon tet.
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I also have a collection of track erasers and such for really stubborn stains. (I'm recycling track on my layout and some goes back to the early 70s, possibly to the 60s.)
I recently splurged on the WS track cleaning kit with tons of pads and a stick. (I found that I need to buy a separate stick if I need length). This did a good job on my wife's Lionel track and the On30 line. Haven't got to the G yet.
I have some of the pads that drag from the axles (HO) but I don't know how well they work.
I've also used pieces of wood to scrape the rails.
When I was young, I saw someone cleaning tinplate track with carbon tetrachloride and emery paper. Then my mother read about carbon tet.
(Note the comment in my signature.)
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.