Chris,

The link you posted doesn't work. Do you have another?

Irv

I have been to the Dapol site but all I can find is OO scale and N scale items.  I thought it was available in HO?

And while Jeff may want one in blue and white he probably doesn't want 500 of them...

Atlas is distributing the Dapol cleaner car in the US - it comes in several colors. According to Paul Graf, their shipment of the cars was supposed to come in today.

Mine will be MOW orange.

Thanks Jeff!  MOW orange sounds about right to me.

http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/hotrackcleaningcar.htm

:o)

Atlas says:

The HO Scale Track Cleaning Car will be available with an 8-pin DCC plug

Since the car is not powered except for the cleaning functions, I'm scratching my head as to why it would have the DCC plug.  Am I missing something?

You might want to control the speed of the vaccuum independent of the track voltage.

I think you can tell it when to vacuum, when to spin the cleaning disk, possibly even control the drip. I'd have to watch the video again to check.

Thanks Jeff,

I guess I didn't pick that up from viewing the interview even though I've watched it twice in the past.

I'm going to watch it again.

I was assuming the settings were manual and static once the car was moving about the layout.  Dcc is so very cool!

I'm really looking forward to getting my first taste of a DCC layout!