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I wanna add my 2 cents :) I've been in this hobby for almost a year and had to learn a lot of things the hard way. I've been cleaning track using alcohol from drugstore, it works pretty well. But what I found over the last few month is that I no longer need to clean my track at all. I converted to nickel-silver rail, and also, and this is very important, I made sure my rails always have good contact with each other. I learned it the hard way when I had problems with my engines running, I spent hours cleaning track only to find it didn't help. <br />Frustrated, I almost decided to quit the hobby altogether until I noticed there are sparks in railjoiners - the joiners didn't have good contact which caused rails intermittently loose current. Ever since then made very sure my rail joints are tight. Surprisingly I didn't have to clean my track for 5 month now and didn't notice any problems. <br /> <br />So look closer, it may not be the dirt. This of course assumes you have nickel-silver rails. I also learned the hard way that brass track is the quickest way to start hating this hobby.
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