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Originally Posted by Trev
....................... Does anyone have any more information on these two? Are they self propelled? And how does the ice breaking equipment actually work?
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I think the "ice breaking" equipment is simply the locos pantographs
Regular passage of electric trains would normally keep the overhead wires free from icing but from what I can gather the problem has got worse since overnight electrically-hauled mail trains stopped running. Although the two locos can also be used as load banks I believe that they can still operate under their own power.