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Subject: 
Re: tarnished track
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
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.

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?

Thanks for any input and sorry if this was been discussed in gory detail before.

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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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 (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)

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