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[quote user="CShaveRR"] <p>I saw a picture of these somewhere--they're to provide power for radio-controlled dumping mechanisms on these ballast cars. I'm not sure whether the dumping would handled by an employee controlling it from a safe distance away, or by a GPS-based computer-controlled dump-in-motion system like Herzog's, but either way, those panels are where the power comes from.</p><p>I suspect, though, that big panels on the car side like that will be prone to theft or vandalism.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>You probably saw the photo on Train Orders, as I posted a photo of them on there a week or so ago, on both the Eastern and Western Boards. They were going thru Pittsburgh, Pa at the time, on a CSX freight on their way to BNSF. They are Ballast Cars.</p>
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