The Woodlock Line

Belated happy birthday from me as well. The track cleaning loco is a brilliant beast, be perfect on your short line. Also be worth getting a couple of sets of replacement cleaning wheels in stock. Re the Massoth Track Clamps, looks to me that you may have overtightened the screws, have never damaged any of them myself and a couple dis get regularly undone for a removable bridge prior to my going dead rail. Now they are left in just so that the fishplates move with screws nit fully tightened.
 
dunnyrail said:
Belated happy birthday from me as well. The track cleaning loco is a brilliant beast, be perfect on your short line. Also be worth getting a couple of sets of replacement cleaning wheels in stock. Re the Massoth Track Clamps, looks to me that you may have overtightened the screws, have never damaged any of them myself and a couple dis get regularly undone for a removable bridge prior to my going dead rail. Now they are left in just so that the fishplates move with screws nit fully tightened.
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Ahhh, you may have a point, I always just believed that the tighter the better was the way to go....
 
Allowing the postcrete to wet with tap water will not help atract moss, tap water is pretty near death to the stuff. If you have a water butt use that or just let the postcrete go off in the current damp weather.
 
First test run. It's amazing. Not sure why it's taken 16 years to get one. Just needed to make a consist with another MFX locomotive as it struggles up some of the grades in cleaning mode.PXL_20250127_134529021.jpgPXL_20250127_132808503.jpg
 
duncan1_9_8_4 said:
First test run. It's amazing. Not sure why it's taken 16 years to get one. Just needed to make a consist with another MFX locomotive as it struggles up some of the grades in cleaning mode.View attachment 338099View attachment 338100
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Glendale jcn for a while had a second one that he reckoned did the best job with 2 of em, but he eventually sold the second one through the shop. Brian never one to miss a sale! . But on your line I think it is the bee’s knees.
 
The track cleaning machine, as brilliant as it is, was shaking violently when cleaning. How violent is normal? I've reduced it massively and it's now smooth as a whistle. I have some heavy duty double sided gel tape, which I have run under the hood on the flexible part, and stuck a strip of felt to it. It's now cushioned and barely shakes, also giving a more even clean. A job well done.
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duncan1_9_8_4 said:
Does the part with the cleaning wheels shake and shudder violently when cleaning?
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If the track is particularly 'sappy' then it sometimes does bounce about as you describe.

I find mine runs best at speed step 11, or in the 10-12 step range.

I've driven a friend's on his line and I reckon it's similar....
 
I have moss growing on my embankments, however this time of the year sees the birds taking advantage of free moss, they rip it out and leave debris everywhere:

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JimmyB said:
I have moss growing on my embankments, however this time of the year sees the birds taking advantage of free moss, they rip it out and leave debris everywhere:

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Yup I get that, but they do need munchies and below the moss appears to be a good source. I do not worry too much about them and clear up when I need to, trying to put the bigger clumps back in place.image.jpg
 
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