Steam lubercation

[rogertra]

I use "Rail-Zip".

I clean my track very rarely.

Once per year, maybe.

I use only metal wheels, no plastic.

I never use traction tires, nasty things.

If I do "clean" my track it's with 95% "rubbing alcohol" using a soft, lint free cloth followed by an application of a six  inch strip of Rail-Zip" on each rail on the approach tracks to my three staging yards.

My locos run well and rarely stall due to poor pick-up.

[Virginian]

I do use traction tires wherever I can.  Mine are quite well mannered; hardly nasty. 
I clean my track maybe once every 9 or 10 months with laquer thinner or acetone.  I do not get either on my traction tires.  I clean metal wheels with the same stuff, when I have to, and any plastic wheels with alcohol.

[Atlantic Central]

I too avoid plastic wheels, vertually all my freight equipment has sprung metal trucks with metal wheels.

Sheldon