Well folks most of us model railroaders have at one time or another been faced with dirty track. For some it is a never ending battle and for others not so much. The location of a layout has alot to do with the amount of crud that builds up on the rails, along with a few other factors. Fortunately there are now several excellent track cleaning pieces of equipment available to come to our rescue. The newest is the Atlas HO Scale track cleaning car, which is basically the same as the N scale varient that has been available for several years. One noticeable difference is that the HO scale version is DCC capable. I picked mine up approx 2 months ago and have used it a couple of times since. Before the first use, I dropped in a TCS decoder which took all of about 5 minutes to do. The new model has the ability to grind, polish, and vacuum the track. It also has a fluid reservoir should you wish to use that concurrently. I must admit I am impressed with the car and operating it with DCC enables complete control and allows you to control that rotational speed of the grinding/polishing head.You will be impressed as well with the unit in vacuum mode, as it picks up more debris than you would expect. The module also does not appear out of place in a work train as well. Mine is MOW orange. Till next time...
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