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I can't say from an electricians standpoint but only from my own as an Engineer. One night I was running an older GE and a couple other 6-axles off the hill. We only had about 40 cars and I had about 10 pound of air holding the train well as we rolled onto the flat. I wanted to cool things down so I released the air and set the throttle to idle and began counting down to switch to dynamics for a short speed restriction ahead. As I set the dynamics and brought them up to the fifth position (I can never bring myself to call them notches, that is a throttle only to me), a bright BLUE flash lit the night and my conductor (who had assumed the backseat, feet up attitude) almost jumped out of his seat. I asked him if it was close dry lightning as it was a humid late summer day . He looked and me and was about to speak when I set the dynamic up a bit. ZAP! There was that flash again. He was pointing out the back window at the resistor grid and said in a shaky voice, "It's lighning alright, came right out of the dynamics! Five forks of it too!". Needless to say we didn't use the dynamics for the balance of the trip And they were on my report to the Mechanical folks. My Conductor, loves to tell that story to this day, how "forked lighning" was coming out of the unit as we blazed down the hill. That's my only really good electrical story... <br /> <br />LC
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