I never understood what people see in that slop ? I remember I bought a jar in the blue hall over 33 years ago I tried it once on something and that was enough ! The jar is still sitting on a shelf in the basement !
Last spring I took a ride with a freind of mine to a train store in Delaware (can’t remember the name) he was going to look at a legacy Blue Comet set so I went along.
The place was huge and had shelves and display cases full of old trains. One display case had a shelf with over a dozen 726 and 736 Berkshires on the end was a boxed example of a 1950 736 that caught my eye. I asked to see it and when I took it out of its corrugated box I felt a sticky residue on the cab that turned me off completely. I politely placed it back in its box and handed It back to the old timer who owned the place and thanked him. He asked me what’s the matter ? and I explained to him I didn’t know what was on that locomotive but it was very very sticky...his response was “oh wait I’ll show you” He went in the back and brought out a old bottle of that stuff and explained how he cleaned it up with Restorzit. He then said if I was interested he would knock 50 dollars off the price. The boxes where really nice so I paid him cash and took my chances.
It took a little while of cleaning it but I got the residue off and it looks ok now. I have found if you want to “brighten up” a postwar steam locomotive ... just go to Shop Rite and buy a can of Lemon Pledge and be done with it.
