[Accrs-ho] At the club today

[ACCRS HO Scale]

I spent a couple hours at the club today--mostly track cleaning.  I used two of my hard-pulling analog locos on the track-cleaning car train  The first time around on the freight line there were a number of spots where a single engine would have stalled due to dirty track and dirty wheels--the second engine was able to keep the train moving.  I had to clean the loco wheels after each round trip (also the cleaning cars).  By the fourth round trip the engine headlight seldom flickered, so the track was getting cleaner.  I know that several of you have been hand-scrubbing the tracks and running the track-cleaning train, so I am not sure what mechanism is re-depositing dirt on the tracks.  I ran the passenger line also with similar behavior.
My observation was the roller-car cleaners are worthless--at least there was no accumulation of gunk on the rollers.  The Masonite scrubbing cars did pick up gunk.  Frankly, I believe my locos picked up more gunk than any of the cars--of course they were leading the train.
As someone else noted, the block occupancy detector system is not functioning.
John
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