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Slightly dirty rails will improve traction.
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<P><SPAN class=inlineLink onclick="window.open('/TRC/CS/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=253803')"><STRONG><FONT color=#555555>Snoq. Pass RR, sure have no arguments with your response. I worked for a railroad for 4 plus years but not out on the line, just towers and stations. But the rails around where sand was used sure weren't shiny in my memory. I cleaned my HO track with kerosene; of course I had no grades so that worked, and it sure stopped oxidation. Wahls clipper oil was touted in the MR at the time but my budget was the beer kind, not champaigne.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN class=inlineLink onclick="window.open('/TRC/CS/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=253803')"><STRONG><FONT color=#555555>Wouldn't be a bit surprised that if the rails were 'abraided' slightly using 600 trimite paper crosswise, not longitudinally, would improve traction. When tracks are cleaned by sliding something gritty along the rail, it should actually reduce the surface area in contact with the wheel as there are now grooves.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN> admittedly near microscopic, in the rail.</P> <P>Art</P>
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