Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 48, 2005

A brakeman on the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad uses a fusee to demonstrate a hand signal indicating "stop".

A fusee is a pyrotechnic device similar to an automotive flare that is used as a signaling device on North American railroad lines. Since a fusee can only be used once, it is normally reserved for emergency use only.

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