Reply to "Is there a track cleaner that actually works?"

AlanRail posted:

here is why none of these work well enough.  THERE IS TOO MUCH SURFACE OVER THE LENGTH OF THE RAILS AND NOT ENOUGH "clean" SURFACE ON THE CLEANING PART(S) OF THE CLEANERS.

As soon as the cleaning parts are saturated with crud they stop cleaning and you are just spreading the crud along the remaining length of the rails. What is needed is a way to vacuum or remove the crud as it builds up on the cleaning parts.  Until that is invented, your hand, a clean rag and some cleaning solution and your elbow is the only way to really clean the track rails.

Agreed 110%.  Along with a rag and some cleaning solution, here's probably my best track cleaning car.  Notice it has no wheels or couplers.