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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts Can anyone verify if the engines have less traction from metal polished rails and Gleamed rails.Can anyone verify if the engines have less traction from metal polished rails and Gleamed rails. Everyone just ASSumes this but no one has shown any hard evidence that I have seen! I run an engine power pull contest at our NMRA MCR Div 11 Jamboree (Apr 8, 2006) each year and we have the engines pull against a digital scale. I have found that the old Athearn with the sintered wheels will usually out pull any engine given their weights being equal. We have never actually measured the difference between polished rails and non treated rails, but before the pulling contest starts I usually place a couple of different engines on the test track and make them slip their wheels so that they poli***he rails a bit, thus eliminating any dirty track to give the first few engines any Tractive advantage. BOB H – Clarion, PA [/quote] I have been reviewing past posts and found this one to have a note of dissent, particularly in the varied form of the word 'assume'. I did not pick this up earlier, but let me warn others that this person has no quam of directly insulting us with verbal abuse on this forum when he feels his intellect is being threatened. Beware! I am not trying to demean anyone with my zeal on gleaming, just offering an alternate method others have tried and approved, also. Thank you.
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