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Do trains get hit by lighting if so what happens
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Perhaps some of you folks have walked along the tracks, and noticed regularly spaced pits in the rail often mistaken for " Burn-outs" from a slipping locomotive (s). <br />Chances are, those are the result of a lightning strike on the train. A slipping locomotive will leave smooth grooves on the rail head. When you see regularly spaced "divots" with pitting, and irregularity, THAT is the result of lightning. <br /> Anybody familiar with "arc-welding", knows that as little as 100 amps will melt steel. I am not an expert, but I'm sure that a lightning strike packs a hell of a lot more than that.
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