Dust is a model railroad's biggest enemy, and I've spent many years struggling to keep my HO scale Allegheny & Lackawanna Southern from being inundated with it. Of course, the best way to keep dust off the rails is to keep the railroad operating. I've found it's much easier to clean the wheels of a locomotive than it is to clean all of the track on a 20 x 30-foot model railroad. Like many modelers in snow country, when spring comes I like to get outside to do yard work, play a round of golf, or ride my motorcycle. Some years there may be as much as three or four months of down time for the railroad. I always kept the railroad room closed, but no matter what I did, a fine covering of dust settled on the layout. I discovered two simple ways of keeping dust to a minimum in the railroad room. When I'm not riding my motorcycle for any length of time, 1 cover it to keep it clean. I realized that I could do the same thing with my railroad, using thin plastic sheeting sold in home-improvement stores. The plastic is so lightweight that I can secure it with a few pushpins, and it takes less than an hour to cover the entire railroad.
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