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Re: If You Touch the Contact Shoe Not Connected to a Live 3rd Rail, Will You Get a Shlock? |
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Posted by murray1575 on Mon Jul 13 13:08:02 2026, in response to Re: If You Touch the Contact Shoe Not Connected to a Live 3rd Rail, Will You Get a Shlock?, posted by AlM on Sat Jul 11 18:49:22 2026. If you think about it you realize that all the shoes on a car were most likely connected together on trains with high voltage controls where bus jumpers connected 600 volts dc through the train. However with low voltage controls there might not be a need to connect all four shoes together since that might cause a car to bridge a section gap and energize a dead section of track. The low voltage controls use 32 volts to operate the control circuits so that each car (and most likely each truck on that car) only has to power its own motors from the third rail. |
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