I thought I would share some tracking clean thoughts I have had the last few weeks. I have not moved my trains from the States yet to Canada, the layout is housed at my GFs house in Michigan after I left Iowa because of my divorce. Long story but anyways she house the L shaped switch yard, ( one sheet of 4x8 foot ply wood cut into 2x8 and put in a l shape ) holds about 50 cars and has turn table and with tracks to hold 6 locomotives.
So anyways i packed up all the cars and put them in palstic totes for long terms storage. Put the locomotives on the self over the layout and covered the front with plastics to keep the dust off them.
The tracks are combination of brass and N/S. I put everything away in December before I left to come home , I went back in April for 2 weeks, put various locomotives on the tracks and they ran very well without anyout any track cleaning or wheel cleaning. I was shocked. I figured I would spend hours cleaning track and wheels and not have any time to run anything. well i was wrong. my katos, atlas, spetrums, and p2k all ran fine like they had been running beofre they got stored for 4 months. so maybe I was lucky not to have to clean track or the train gods liked me this week.
so how often do you clean tracks and wheels? not even black marks on my fingers when i touched the brass track i was amazed by it all.
anyways that is my track cleaning story clean it once a year and forget about it
So anyways i packed up all the cars and put them in palstic totes for long terms storage. Put the locomotives on the self over the layout and covered the front with plastics to keep the dust off them.
The tracks are combination of brass and N/S. I put everything away in December before I left to come home , I went back in April for 2 weeks, put various locomotives on the tracks and they ran very well without anyout any track cleaning or wheel cleaning. I was shocked. I figured I would spend hours cleaning track and wheels and not have any time to run anything. well i was wrong. my katos, atlas, spetrums, and p2k all ran fine like they had been running beofre they got stored for 4 months. so maybe I was lucky not to have to clean track or the train gods liked me this week.
so how often do you clean tracks and wheels? not even black marks on my fingers when i touched the brass track i was amazed by it all.
anyways that is my track cleaning story clean it once a year and forget about it