What happened with Gleaming track, I couple-few years back, this was HOT topic. i won't say that everyone was doing it; but there was enough talk about it that it was an interesting read. I never tried it as my cars that have hardboard Track Cleaners do a good job of keeping my track clean, also I had too much hidden track, so could not reach all of my track.
A few weeks back MRH's TMTV's Joe Fugate had a video on using Graphite sticks to apply a coat of Graphite to the inner corner of your rails, this was to be the "Be All and End All" to fixing track conductivity. I went out and bought some 2B Graphite sticks to try this system out. The one thing that Joe did not mention in the video was to be very sparing in the Graphite application. So I made a couple rounds with the graphite and all of a sudden my track was to slippery and trains could not make it up my grades anymore. So, then I spent a couple hours removing the graphite. I do think this process deserves further research, if done properly and properly means maybe only applying to a small section of track, as the trains will then track the graphite to the rest of the layout.
However, in my case, I think I will stay with an occasional work out with the Bright Boy and my Hardboard Track Cleaning Cars!
A few weeks back MRH's TMTV's Joe Fugate had a video on using Graphite sticks to apply a coat of Graphite to the inner corner of your rails, this was to be the "Be All and End All" to fixing track conductivity. I went out and bought some 2B Graphite sticks to try this system out. The one thing that Joe did not mention in the video was to be very sparing in the Graphite application. So I made a couple rounds with the graphite and all of a sudden my track was to slippery and trains could not make it up my grades anymore. So, then I spent a couple hours removing the graphite. I do think this process deserves further research, if done properly and properly means maybe only applying to a small section of track, as the trains will then track the graphite to the rest of the layout.
However, in my case, I think I will stay with an occasional work out with the Bright Boy and my Hardboard Track Cleaning Cars!