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I am a machinist for Conrail shared assets so that box is not my domain it is serviced by the electricians. From what I have seen it houses a lot of relays and electrical equipment,They open it up during 90 day pm's and 45 day lubes and check the components inside. There is also some equipment inside the short hood. I am not positive but I think it may have been done on the EMD engines to preserve room in the bathroom area which is cramped to begin with, The GE engines Have the bathrooms behind the crew and not in the short hood like the Emd's do.I believe all the wide bodies from both EMD and GE all use solid state cab signal equipment which is much smaller and really doesnt interfere with cab space as they all have their bathrooms down below in front of the conductor's station. I really should know for sure but it is not part of my job to work on this equipment, but I think that the engines that share tracks with passenger service have to have this equipment at least on the leaders. MrCNJ
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