03-18-2011, 08:13 PM
Gary;
Here's a photo of a torpedo showing the torpedo and the lead straps used to secure it to the rail:
Also a YouTube video demonstrating a locomotive setting one off, although it doesn't do justice to the noise they make.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHU3NwgGEhY
We used them now and then on both the F&C and L&N. My first encounter with one was when I worked for the F&C and the Southern crew was in the yard at Georgetown. They had placed torpedos on the rails behind the Georgetown depot to warn us they were in the yard, and I was riding the front step of the 70 tonner when we ran over it. Wow! It was loud!
Here's a photo of a torpedo showing the torpedo and the lead straps used to secure it to the rail:
Also a YouTube video demonstrating a locomotive setting one off, although it doesn't do justice to the noise they make.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHU3NwgGEhY
We used them now and then on both the F&C and L&N. My first encounter with one was when I worked for the F&C and the Southern crew was in the yard at Georgetown. They had placed torpedos on the rails behind the Georgetown depot to warn us they were in the yard, and I was riding the front step of the 70 tonner when we ran over it. Wow! It was loud!
Ed
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