Hi Trackers,
I've decided to shift my emphasis in our great hobby toward
some of my long overdue projects. So, I'm taking a break for a
while from active participation in our club events. Hope to see
you all again on down the road.
The reason I bring it up is that I've been cleaning the
track before the events I attend for some time now. Someone
else will now need to do this if you believe as I do that clean
track makes a huge difference in how the trains run, especially
the command engines.
I have been using plain old "odorless mineral spirits" from
the paint section of Home Depot or Lowes. The quart size will do
the layout several times. I both apply it and wipe it off with
a brand of paper towel I also got from Home Depot. These paper
towels are not your usual supermarket variety. They come in
a roll and are all but as strong as cloth and are all but lint
free. They work great and don't cost all that much more.
Odorless mineral spirits is relatively benign, but, just in
case, I bought a pack of those inexpensive really thin
disposable "rubber" (not really) gloves.
Rick Dolifka helped me clean track downtown during the
Holiday event and knows how I chose to do it.
See ya' around,
Bill