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Originally Posted by cowhead
...speaking of stupid things done with trains.. an old friend of mine and I used to put rimfire bullets on the train tracks. one day we upgraded to shotgun shells, well... suffice to say along comes the train, runs over the shells, they go off.. apparently loudly enough for the driver to hear it.. well.. then something I never ever thought would happen did.. they stopped the train to try to find us.. needless to say we bolted into the woods and ran home scared shitless  |
They use a signal device on the tracks that is packed with powder that can be clamped to the tracks as a marker of sorts. It, like the shotgun shell, is loud enough to hear in the engine. That's probably why they stopped.
We used to strap the signals to the head of a large bold and a long streamer to the other end and launch them as far as we could. Satisfyingly loud, but damn dangerous.