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I have no objection to alcohol if you follow it with a coating of oil (wiped off until coating is VERY thin). Using alcohol by itself, by the time you get to the other side of the layout the part you cleaned has already started to oxidize. The "too clean" syndrome. <br /> <br />If you have no grades or complicated switchwork, Flitz is fine. On a 1.5% grade it cut the <br />pulling capacity of my brass steamers by 50%! And it is a bear to apply without "picking" points. Works well on the flats though. In general I prefer a few drops of Tuner Cleaner (Railzip looks suspiciously similar). Works especially well sprayed into switch points. Tuner cleaner cleans and leaves a thin moisture-displacement coating of oil to protect against oxidation. <br /> <br />I abhor the more abrasive Bright Boys because to me they symbolize failure. If your track is that bad, unless you just weathered it with paint, you are really doing something wrong. On the other hand, club I recently joined uses fine-grain softer bright boys on yard tracks lightly and it works well. They only have to do this a couple times a year, though. It is a preferred alternative to running a wet or roller type track cleaner back and forth---that is used on the mains.
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