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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Monday, December 21, 2009 5:41 PM

The sounds can be designed to change as the locomotive changes speeds and direction.

 

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Posted by Redore on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 2:48 PM

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As for the acid - there's no question that it would be an environmental problem in the event of an incident causing leakage of the acid, but I suspect that said damage would be far less severe than the spillage of several thousand gallons of Diesel (not to mention the flammability factor).
Diesel's not really all that flammable. In fact, if you throw a match into it, the match will go out. Burning diesel isn't very toxic, but burning sulphuric acid? And all those batteries with can provide plenty of oomph, to get things burning.

Sulfuric acid is water based and will not burn by itself.

If it gets spilled on metal, hydrogen is released, and that will burn quite well if it is captured.

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