Melbourne also used to use scrubbers for the same purpose. I wonder if they use anything with friction to clean new work now?

Wetting the rails before the first scrub would eliminate much of that arcing.

Regards,

> On 20 Jul 2017, at 10:45 am, Matthew Geiermatthew@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> On 20/07/17 10:27, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

> > I can't resist a suggestion to look at an earlier contribution on this

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> > Mal Rowe - wondering if other museums operate scrubbers for their

> > original purpose?

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> Lotfus use 143s for cleaning rail after concreting.

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> https://youtu.be/MoycnUAxdO0

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> There isn't enough traffic to cause corrugations, so it's only used to

> clean the rail head of 'new work'.

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