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Re: tarnished track
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:53:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Douglas Pool wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just got a new train set and I was playing with it last night. I put in a
> couple of old straight rail pieces that are probably 5 yrs old with the new rail
> pieces. I had noticed that the old track feels rough to the touch like there is
> a small amount of oxide on the surface. When I was running the train around my
> loop, I could see a very noticeable decrease in speed when the engine was over
> the older track.
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> I did a search to see if I could find something about this and found mostly
> people talking about some kind of track cleaning compound for model railroading.
> I also found one comment that 9V track is designed to clean itself.
>
> So how do people get rid of the oxide or if I just run my train over it a bunch
> of times, will it knock enough of the oxide off at the contact points that
> performance will improve?
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> Thanks for any input and sorry if this was been discussed in gory detail before.
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> Douglas Pool
I am afraid I have to reply to myself. Last night I noticed that I was
incorrect in my assumption that my train engine was running slower over the
older track. I had put the rails at the end of a curve and the engine actually
slows down a bit going around the curve. Or after playing with it for a while I
improved the performance. I can't really tell the difference performance wise
now.
Thanks for the input.
Doug
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