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Hi John, Welcome to the hobby, now get your mom interested. There are some good points brought up by the previous posts. If your 0-4-0 was used when you purchased it, you may have one of the early ones that had a problem with the plastting wareing off the wheels exposing the copper base coating. This will cause the wheels to become very dirty very fast. By all means, do apply electrical pick ups to the tender and electrically connect it to the engine. Adding weight to the loco will also help. Aristo track has very nice screw type rail joiners. I don't recommend using abrasive cleaners on brass rail; your rail has been sitting for a period of time in disuse. You may need to do a lot of cleaning. Using an orbital vibrator sander, try placing an absorbant pad of cloth on the sander and cover it with a piece of fiberglass window screen, wet the pad with whitchazel and poli***he rail head. Next, clean the rail with simple green followed with a liberal spray of water, wipe it with a cloth and alow it to dry. Now you are ready to improve the contact; coat the rail with WD-40. Use the liquid form and place a strip of the liquid about a foot long on each rail and let your loco spread it around. You may need to do this at several locations to get the whold layout covered. This may make your wheels slip, ( if you have grades or a light loco, your 0-4-0 should be ok, mine was.) if it does wipe it off with BBQ liter fluid. The WD-40 will improve the contact of your wheels and help keep the ants from using your track as a freeway. If performance falls off add more WD-40, this should keep you running smoothly.
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