Replying to Best ways to make rails less sticky?

So here in Ohio, our rails are fucked nearly all the time. I still can't figure out if it's because our resort is so bad at everything or if it's because of the weather. Either way, I'd like to take things into my own hands this year so I can actually throw down some stuff on our features. Is there anything that I could do to the rails short of taking a god damn grinder to them to reduce rust/stickiness? Rubbing it down with snow/wax helps of course, but it never lasts long. I'm looking for something that will last a bit longer than that. I've heard of people using sandpaper and steel wool. Anything like that you guys have tried?