PrairieKnight
Active Member
This goes along with the thread started by Railrunner. I am learning that having your layout in the basement does lead to alot of track cleaning. So be it.... I am still having fun no matter what I am doing on the layout. Along with cleaning the track, I place a rag on a section of track with alcohol on it. I then place rolling stock on the rag and pass it back and forth over the soaked rag to clean the wheels. My question is in cleaning the wheels on locomotives. I have seen Youtube videos where you would use said alcohol soaked rag on the track just as I do for the rolling stock. You would then run the locomotive onto the soaked rag one truck at a time...letting the wheels on the rag spin on the rag to remove the nasty stuff.
This looks great on the videos... but when I try it..the soaked rag just bunches up and not much is cleaned from the wheels on the locomotive. Does anyone have a better way of cleaning the locomotive wheels? I have seen kits in my LHS that consist of a couple different liquids which are meant to clean the wheels and oil the gears. Perhaps that would be better then the soaked rag method.
After cleaning I will pack up the locomotives following the advice on Railrunner's thread until a rainy day when I can play in the basement.
This looks great on the videos... but when I try it..the soaked rag just bunches up and not much is cleaned from the wheels on the locomotive. Does anyone have a better way of cleaning the locomotive wheels? I have seen kits in my LHS that consist of a couple different liquids which are meant to clean the wheels and oil the gears. Perhaps that would be better then the soaked rag method.
After cleaning I will pack up the locomotives following the advice on Railrunner's thread until a rainy day when I can play in the basement.