Union Pacific 4432 lubrication

[djs1079]

As an early Christmas present we received the Union Pacific 4432 HO scale in November.  It's our first train and we love it.

It says to lubricate the engine every 24 hours of use.  We didn't hit that mark yet, but in a couple weeks the train will be packed away till November.

Do we wait for the 24 hour use mark to lubricate, or lubricate before putting it away or after pulling it out?

Any tips would be greatly appreciate it.

P.S. we do have the Bachmann track cleaner and used that as the train was stalling on one track.  It works great now, even better than out of the box.