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LBF wheels are metal wheels on metal axles and are rust colored so no weathering is needed. they come in 33" or 36" sizes. They are manufactured for LBF which is in Oregon, check them out on the web as they have other products also. [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by mondotrains You mentioned that you use "LBF" wheelsets. Are they metal? I've never heard of them. What does the LBF stand for? [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by oc5855 Mondo, I have used a lot of LBF wheels in nearly all my rolling stock mainly because of cost. One of the members of the club to which I belong owns a hobby shop and cuts every member a very good discount and right now LBF has the best price, and when you have over 750 carscost is really a issue. I will say that I do use other brands also like Protos in all my McKean and Front Range cars and of course Atlas comes with their own. One problem that I have encountered with most wheels is that they need to be painted to dull their apearence. Nothing looks worse than a nice string of cars with those "chrome" wheels, so I have to take the time to weather the wheels. I like others have found that there is no perfect wheel set for every purpose. I have recently started to replace the wheel sets in my Athearn loco with Northwest Shortline 40" wheels and this has helped greatly. As far a track cleaning, at our club we have found that by nearly all the members switching to metal wheels and changing the wheels in the Athearn locos that we do not have nearly the problrm with dirty track that we had. The building that we are in is over 100 years old and has no heat or a/c on the floor we are using which is the top floor of a 3 story. For heat in the winter we are using a propane space heater whick has cut down greatly on our winter dirt over when we used kerosene heaters. The summer we still have a dirt issue as the only way to cool the building down is to open the windows and doors. We have tried most ot the methods listed by the other folks who posted replys with little to no luck, but the ATF method sounds cool, As for our way to do it which for us has nearly solved our problems is to remove the cleaning pad from under a track cleaner and replace it with a piece of masonite and just drag it around once in a while. A nothe club told us this and they have gone a far to make a couple of track cleaners out of dummy locos which they run in their loco pool. I know it is long but there is my answer, hope it helps [/quote] [/quote]
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