Undecorated Track-cleaning Car One-of-a-Kind Cars

Centerline Products (click for web site)

track-cleaning car

AF

1994

brass

unpainted

hi-rail

AF

Early versions of this car used older wheels that were set for the old NMRA gauge. The current production version comes with S-Helper Service hi-rail wheels and couplers (the use of "scale" wheels and couplers would be a modeler's project). The early versions were made out of diecast metal, but the current production is made out of brass for added weight. The car comes with a brass roller and ten roller covers used for the actual cleaning of track.

Centerline Products (click for web site)

track-cleaning car

S | AF

2020

brass

unpainted

scale or hi-rail

scale or AF

This model is intended to be used with an American Models 40-foot box car body that clips right into the brass frame.

CMX (click for web site)

CMX-S

track-cleaning car

S

2016

brass

unpainted

These cars are no longer being manufactured. Tony's Train Exchange still has some replacement cleaning pads available (click CMX link, above). CMX recommended acetone as the cleaning liquid (hence the need for a brass body to hold the 9ml of liquid). However, acetone can melt plastics, so other solutions, such as the much more gentle (diluted) Simple Green may work as well.

Ribbonrail

S-1

track-cleaning car

S

1954

metal

painted & lettered

scale or hi-rail

scale or AF

These cars were advertised in the December 1954 issue of Model Railroader magazine where they were listed as being sold by the retailer Baumgarten of California.