I have got into the habit to never put a train away whether on a shelf, closet, box or storage Bin etc. without taking the battery's out even if I plan to use that train again soon. To many times I had found an engine, like you Pop, that still had battery's in it when I went to run them. And like you had been lucky that they didn't leak. But how close were they to leaking, one never knows. And how many times that even though we say we are going to use that engine again soon, it isn't and we are playing russian roulette with battery acid.
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