Wonder what everyone Dusts their trains with ?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

Did I hear someone say they want to DUST their trains?

Try this:

If I'm not mistaken....that's a German piece from WWII.... a REAL RAIL GUN.

The 80cm 'Gustav' :

The largest gun ever built had an operational career of 13 days, during which a total of 48 shells were fired in anger. It took 25 trainloads of equipment, 2000 men and up to six weeks to assemble. It seem unlikely that such a weapon will ever be seen again.




You can even buy some of the models for your layout that were released in Feb. 2005.

One of the German 28cm K5(E) railway guns (firing above), "Leopold" was known as "Anzio Annie" by the US soldiers who were battered by its fire at Anzio Beach in Italy. Dragon's 1/144 scale replica is about 220mm long. Details are fine and all the stencil cautions are represented. The model also comes with the rail bed embankment, with "grass" and six gun crewmen. The completed model is packaged in a hard plastic display case.

[Blueberryhill RR]

This is the largest I ever fired. For real.


30sWILLGO, Wait until you see my train car washer.
Chuck

[ChiefEagles]

I have seen smoewhere a toy trin cleaning station. Think it uses compressed air. I believe it was expensive. My question was, if it blows the dust off, where does the dust go then?

[tschmidt]

I have used compressed air also but the cost is high. Someone just made a suggestion the other day to try pumping up a garden sprayer with air to see if that works. I am going to give it a try this week.

[prewardude]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tschmidt

I have used compressed air also but the cost is high. Someone just made a suggestion the other day to try pumping up a garden sprayer with air to see if that works. I am going to give it a try this week.

Just make sure there isn't any chemical residue left in the sprayer when you try it. I work with pesticides/fungicides/herbicides all the time, and believe-you-me, that stuff is corrosive as all get-out! [:(]

[bogaziddy]

What about those miniature computer keyboard vacuum cleaners? You can get them from computer mail order houses or computer tools retailers. Has anyone tried one of those? I use small paint brushes of varying stiffnesses and canned air - seems to work adequately enough. To clean a very dirty locomotive that's been covered in dust for years, I've dabbed a little Goo-gone on a soft cloth and gotten most of the dirt off. I have no idea what the long term affects of Goo-gone might be to a locomotive's finish.

The Bog

[daan]

I have a soft brush which can be fixed to the vacuüm cleaner. That works nice as well.

[FJ and G]

30sWillGo,

yep

[MartyE]

Another thing I do is to get an old sheet and rip it into strips that are wide enought when put over a train the side drape down to the platform. I usually keep 'em about 4ft long so they are manageble. I wash 'em about every 2 weeks to keep them clean. It helps.