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- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!ntmtv!adrian
- From: adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt)
- Subject: Re: Torpedos (was: Incident on Boston (MBTA) Commuter Rail)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214201.10781@ntmtv>
- Sender: news@ntmtv
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- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec22.134008.8594@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:42:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.134008.8594@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
- |> (yes, i have the [torpedo] "formula", and no, i won't enter it.
- |> Its nasty to work with.)
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- I remember using ordinary safety flare powder once. It seems to blow
- up with quite a good bang when crushed under a train wheel...
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- By the way, isn't the railroader's "fusee" just an ordinary safety flare?
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