Help with fabricating standard scale track cleaner car

@Steve Tyler This is how I made my standard gauge track cleaning car from a 512 gondola. I cut two square pieces of wood to hold the cleaning pad. Four holes were drilled through the wood pieces. I installed small bolts in the wood blocks to act as a clamp for the cleaning pad and to ride up through the floor of the gondola.

Four holes were drilled in the gondola floor so the pad assembly bolts could sick up inside. No nuts were installed inside the gondola. This allows the cleaning assembly to float along the track. I use a piece of chamois as the cleaning pad. The nuts on the bolts clamp the chamois in place. I then took a lumber load from a standard gauge flat car and drilled holes in the bottom to cover the bolts sticking up inside the car.

I run the car dry with no cleaning solution on the pad. The pictures below show the car details.

Make a second pad assemblu and put a green scotchbrite pad on it for heavier cleaning  Possibly add 4 light compression springs to the bolts  and add ballast weight to the car

Ed Samsen

Steve- I have an All-nations O gauge car. Joe's car is the same thing on steroids.

The stock pads are washable and reusable but thin scotchbrite pads will work too.

Bob

Thanks, Joe, Ed and Bob! I like the designs, and think I'll use them to guide my own version. Adding weight to the car and springs over the bolts, and stopper nuts to keep the pad attached to the car when it's lifted from the track, might be good additions as well. Thanks again, all!

My wrist... on wheels.