Keith1366 and others
Keith, you beat to it about NO OX. NO OX has been used on model railroad tracks since the 1940s. Linn Westcott, the original editor of Model Railroader, used to treat his train track with No-Ox ID A Special and stated he knew other people who did as well, and they never had to clean their track aside from occasionally vacuuming up debris.
Read more: https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-t...track/#ixzz7KK83r7vW
NO OX is an electrical conductive grease and reduces sparking. It is used to reduce sparking in many switching and wire connections in industrial applications. Dust and oil and grease from engines cause dirty track and train wheels and sparking oxidizes it.
You can clean track successfully with a dozen or so cleaners, cleaning cars, etc. To me the promise of NO OX is clean the track and engine wheels once, apply NO OX and never clean track again. I have cleaned my track with mineral spirits and applied NO OX to my O27 track in December 2021 and have updated a NO OX topic on OGR here. We will see if track cleaning for me is over!
My trains have never run better and they now can run really slow. I have 027, 31 Marx switches and run mostly post war locos. Better electrical pick up from the center rail and no sparking are great.
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...1#158955947792824251
Charlie
