I have been using an Aristo Craft track cleaning Caboose to keep my tracks clean and it seems to work pretty good. What are the rest of you using? I gave up on the hand cleaning method as it never seemed to get things clean enough. Now with a couple of passes everything is fine. Art
Art, I just have a big oval outside for running my live steam trains. From time to time I run an electric one on it and then I use a live steamer with 3 track cleaning cabooses from Aristo (MOW train). The cleaning pad of the first caboose is handled with a kind of alcohol that degreases. the other two have the normal dry pad. with a couple of friends I'm building an inside layout and there we clean with an abrasive pad and afterwards we use a cloth with the same alcohol. ------------------ Paul the 2nd Paul Van Herwegen HO Rappannahock Terminal Railway G Emerald Valley RR http://users.pandora.be/paul.van.herwegen/
ART: I have been useing the Trackman C-2000 to coean my four hundred feet of track and it works great. It has weight to it , the amount of pressure use to clean is adjustable and the unit is articulated to keep pad centered on rails even on four foot dia. curves. Hank
Hello Hank, welcome to Trainboard! 400ft of track must be quite a layout. What do you run? Steam or diesel? (or both) To be honest it's the first time I hear about the "Trackman C-2000" could you pass some information on this cleaner or a pic??? ------------------ Paul the 2nd Paul Van Herwegen HO Rappannahock Terminal Railway G Emerald Valley RR http://users.pandora.be/paul.van.herwegen/
Paul: Thank you for the welcome. I have been lurking for some time now, but never posted. I run both diesel and steam. The line is called the Appalachian Line. You can check it out at. http://www.trainweb.org/jlsrr/appalachian/ I can't send pictures as of yet, working on that. You can get information on the Track man by inquiring at this E-mail address. trackmanc2000@aol.com. I have been using one for over a year now. The only thing I use my LGB track cleaner engine for anymore is on the sidings. Hank
Hank, I like your outside railroad very much! Are you happy with the performances of your USA-Trains NW-2's??? maybe you have read the thread about tracklaying on the ground. What did you do for preparing the foundation to lay your track on?? Thanks for the e-mail address?? ------------------ Paul the 2nd Paul Van Herwegen HO Rappannahock Terminal Railway G Emerald Valley RR http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=977739&a=7560092 [This message has been edited by Rappannahock Terminal (edited 16 December 2000).]
Paul: The NW2 and calf have been on the line for two years now and I have not had any problems with either unit. I did have a problem with the sound in one of the engines, but that has been taken care of by USA trains. They are great pullers. We have pulled a forty two car train with metal wheel(cow and calf lash up). I didn't do any ground prepration when I layed the track. Just float the track on crushed fines. Bottom layer is quater inch and top layer is eighth inch. Hank
