I too recommend the gleaming process but have one question. If after gleaming I periodically rub the rails with alcohol won’t that take the polish off the rails and negate the effort of polishing? Maybe I should just run the dry masonite pad cleaning car and be done with it?
I’ve gone parts of my layout with alcohol and have never noticed any detriment of the GLEAMed track.
Those work quite well. I use a Bachmann track cleaning tank car. Does the same job.
forget the liquid cleaners and rubbing the rails. I gleamed several years ago and now just run locomotive wheels over clean paper towel occasionally for about 30 seconds per truck…no stalls now.
Bart,
I’m a firm believer in the “gleaming” of the track. Was a tedious process “gleaming” all the track on my previous layout, but well worth the effort as the layout shared the garage with the family automobile. This time around with the new layout I’m “gleaming” as I go, less daunting and less broken trackside scenery items.
regards, Peter
Gleamed my track , about 300 ft, in 2006, run masonite pads under four boxcars to pick up oxidation, haven’t had to clean it since. On little used sidings i do have to wipe them with alcohol now and then. Using a bright boy is a hanging offense on the Central Pensylvania