<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;">John,<div><br></div><div>I did the same yesterday. Ran three locos. Lead loco picked up the most dirt. Geese, the track should be nice and clean now.</div><div><br></div><div>Dean<br><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;">-----Original Message----- <br>From: ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org> <br>Sent: Feb 11, 2021 5:14 PM <br>To: "accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org" <accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org> <br>Subject: [Accrs-ho] At the club today <br><br> <div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. <div><br> </div> <div>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.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>As someone else noted, the block occupancy detector system is not functioning.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>John</div> </div> </accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org></accrs-ho@mail.accrs.org></blockquote></div></div></body></html>