 Hello, Brinconi here. As a follow-up to my article in the July MRH on track cleaning experiments, I thought I'd shoot a little video on how to easily clean the wheels on locomotives and cars. This method works well if they're not too dirty, if they're really dirty you need to get in there with a brake buoy or something and really scrub the wheels off. But the one advantage of this method is that it cleans all the wheels on all your rolling stock, not just the locomotives. Now I didn't invent this, this has been around for years, been out on other YouTube videos. I'm using these utility claws, just cut into strips, which I then dribbled some acetone on. A little pipette here onto the rails and then we simply run the locomotive through and the entire train through and across. Because these strips are only 1.5 to 2 inches wide, it doesn't stall on them and you clean all the wheels. Okay, this is a close-up view, hopefully you can see it here. It shows the strip here in these little spring things made out of piano wire or steel spring wire. I bent a little thing there on the end of it, hopefully you can see that. And I've also drilled holes here and put brass tubing in, this is 1.16 inch brass tubing and so the spring piece fits right down in there. There's one on each side of the rails on the outside and one in the middle, that one keeps the coupler pin from catching. And so all we do is, and because it's only an inch to an inch and a half wide, the train is able to negotiate it without stalling and you clean all the wheels as it goes around. So all you have to do is run your train around and then when it gets dirty you just give it a little tug and pull it to a clean spot, maybe put a little more fluid on and you're in business.