Suggestions For a Track cleaning Car

Check out the R&L Lines track scrubber at www.railtycoon.com (GB Trains, Green Bay, WI.)

You might want to use the search feature in this forum. This subject has been discussed here MANY times.

Use a swiffer to get to the hard areas. I use a spritz of w d 40 and them rubbing alcohol to get the residue from the w d. It works really well for hard to reach areas.

Glenn

Pat's Trains - a sponsor here I think - makes a really good one.  It's my favorite.  I use cleaning pads you can make from scotchbrite ones you buy at the store, is adjustable, and works well dry or very effectively wet if the track is really dirty.  I don't use any other cleaning car now.

If you want to make a very inexpensive track cleaning car you might want to research this one on the OGR web site.---------Inexpensive Track Cleaning Car 07/20/2012 by Bobby Ogage.It was very easy and inexpensive to make and I bet you can make several for your club.

I guess just about every subject has been discussed many times over on this site, but after our club building several of own track cleaning cars described in magazine articles which didn't work very well, we are looking for new and additional information on this subject. I didn't know it wasn't permitted or suggested to reopen a topic on this site, if that's true I guess the whole site  should have closed long ago. Thanks, to those who gave their suggestions though.

That's the one I use most frequently.  I do a pretty good job of regularly cleaning the track on my layouts, so never really have had a problem with any kind of significant build-up on rails or wheels.  I just hook-up the track-cleaning gondola from Pat's and drag it along the railroad a couple of times.  That seems to do a fine job.