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I tried to use MAAS and found that the little pink piles of goo in the ties didn't look all that realistic, though the rails sure looked sharp. I'm sure I used too much, but the surface area of a rail on Atlas Snap track sure is little. <br /> <br />I actually have some alcohol-based cleaner that I got about 20 years ago. At the time, I was an early teen and made do with what I had. I took an old caboose. I took the wheels out of an extra truck and screwed it to the center of the caboose. I ground the truck so that it was flat and then glued a felt pad to it. It wasn't quite thick enough so I put a self-adhesive felt pad on the other felt pad and that gave me the thickness I needed. I just wet the pad with the cleaner I mentioned, couple it alone to a locomotive and run that on the track. I like to use light-colored felt so that I can see how much junk it is taking off the rails. <br /> <br />Not real glamorous, but it seems to work okay. What I like about it is that I couple it to the front of the power and that way I'm not running over the gunk before the cleaner gets to it. <br /> <br />Darrin
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