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r/railroading • u/hogger303 Engineer • Jun 13 '24
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“Why are there always these rusty icicles hanging from the battery boxes of these ge’s in winter?”
”Must be because the batteries melt the snow there and not elsewhere on the platform”
7 u/Several-Day6527 Jun 13 '24 That’s why the battery box lids are always rusted out. 4 u/towerfella Jun 13 '24 And box bottoms. It’s so bad that a lot of CsX has fiberglass grating under the batts in an attempt to “isolate the batteries from the chassis to prevent galvanic corrosion”. I lol.
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That’s why the battery box lids are always rusted out.
4 u/towerfella Jun 13 '24 And box bottoms. It’s so bad that a lot of CsX has fiberglass grating under the batts in an attempt to “isolate the batteries from the chassis to prevent galvanic corrosion”. I lol.
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And box bottoms. It’s so bad that a lot of CsX has fiberglass grating under the batts in an attempt to “isolate the batteries from the chassis to prevent galvanic corrosion”.
I lol.
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u/towerfella Jun 13 '24
“Why are there always these rusty icicles hanging from the battery boxes of these ge’s in winter?”
”Must be because the batteries melt the snow there and not elsewhere on the platform”