Bright Boys

The blog and layout have been dormant for over a year, partly due to needing a more active movement of cars without so much interaction. It was weiging me down, among other unrelated things / issues...  I've been working on the JMRI Ops Switchlist program, and have it flowing fairly well now, but still need to get it printing out on to my original copies of Espee Commom Standard forms.  But satisfied with where things were for now, it was time to run some trains again!
So I was using the Bright boy to clean track, and noticed the track wasnt getting as clean as it used to. I could run my finger down the rails after cleaning, and still get heavy black marks on my finger. I thought I had pretty much solved that old problem of dragging dirt around the layout, but it was back again. Years ago I figured out the Bright boy needs to be actively cleaned all the time. I have been using an old carpet scrap of indoor / outdoor carpet to rub both sides of the Bright boy back to its original brown color. For years I had just been slapping the carpet on the edge of the bench to keep it clean.  Lately I had thought my Bright boys were still pretty dark after their cleaning, and noticed that 5 year old carpet scrap staying pretty black too.  Well I decided to try running the carpet over to the sink with some warm soapy water, and it cleaned right up. Now the Bright boys are looking like new again and actually cleaning again.
Here's a quick vid on what kind of mileage you can get out of a Bright boy if you take care of it:
Clean that Bright Boy
Been working on some other projects that will post news on soon.