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This may be a dumb question, but won't "super-polishing" your drive wheels effect the engine's traction? i.e. ability to pull?Mark (also) in Oregon
Wow Max! You sure take this hobby to the Nth level! If polishing the wheel thread completely eliminates the squeaking then you will have found out the cause. Nice detective work.Was that occasional squeak really all that bothersome? Real train often squeal too. They make all sorts of metallic sounds. Reduce those sounds 160 times and you probably end up with squeaks. I'm also curious if polished wheels will lose some traction. Also, how long will they remain in a polished state while running? I guess we'll find out.
Max - must give you a hard time here.....real locos clang bang and squeak. You are diminishing the realism of the loco.
Now, it's much more of a "scale squeak" and is not objectionable.