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generally not at all as far as the train itself is concerned, but like the other guy said, it will sometimes play heck with signals and track ciruits, which causes all the trains to have to run slower(in some cases much, much slower or stop). I have heard of a few instances where lightning hit the engines directly, which both times i've heard about it, the engines tripped their ground relay breakers, and they all shut down. nobody hurt or anything, the elect. would be conducted around the shell of the engine to ground, and don't worry about whether it's obvious or not, when i first went to work with the railroad, I asked the very same question of the old heads! never hurts to ask!
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