Clearly there is a significant lack of understanding of how diesel electric engines work that is evident from the comment above. The trucks and electric motors used to drive the wheels in the pure electric and diesel electric engines are similar, if not the same. Whatever will short out an electric engine will also short out a diesel electric engine. Typically it takes a foot or more of water above the rail.Right, but wouldn't a half submerged train somehow, somewhere, find a path for currents to cross between the catenary and the track? Course a diesel train could drown out like a car, but a whole heck of a lot harder.
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