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OK Steam Junkies, [:p] After reading your many wonderful stories of how steam rules, I finally broke down and bought my first steam engine. Its a HO scale Rivarossi 4-6-4 Hudson. Now after becoming hooked on how wonderful this baby looks rolling through my industrial layout, I've accumulated a load of gunk on the wheels which is starting to effect its performance. Now if this was one of my many diesels, I would simply use my handy Kadee wheel cleaner, clean up the wheels and be back rolling again. Apparently a steamer is different. My question is, how can I use the same Kadee wheel cleaner (brass wire brushes with current thru it) to clean my steamer? I see that on a steam engine, half of the electical pick-up comes from the front drive wheels and the other half comes from the tender wheels. With my 4-6-4, one side of the front drive wheels actually have rubber traction bands on the wheels. I can't see how my Kadee wheel cleaner will work. Also, the front, front wheels, the "4" of the 4-6-4 are dirty as well. I'm open to other methods if there are better ones[^]. Thanks
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