A warm, fusee feeling...

[tree68]

What if there is a gas leak after a fusee is lit and left by itself?

Same as if there’s a gas leak and there’s somebody minding the fusee.

[Schuylkill_and_Susqu]

I watched a train use a sharp curved connector track to switch a train from an E/W line to a N/S line and the conductor used a Fusee to flag one grade crossing. When the train was occupying the crossing he tossed the fusee to the curb and went to the head end and the train left. Right after that a police car drove by and the officer turned on his rooftop lights and blocked the street near the burning fusee.

I was across the street taking photos of the old train station there. The policeman came to me and asked what I knew about the “flare in the street”. I explained what I knew about them, which was only that the RR used them as warning devices at unsignaled grade crossings and I pointed at the train still visible to the south.

I don’t think he believed anything I said. He was, by my way of reading his demeanor, near to arresting ME for leaving the flare in the gutter of the street in the dry leaves (one twig with about 3 leaves!). Why didn’t I stop the RR from leaving the flare in the street… um… I was 1/2 block away, it was none my business; they know what they are doing; there was a moving train between me and the conductor what did it… lotsa reasons!

Another police car showed up and that officer seemed to have seen the situation before, but I was still “ordered” to leave the area.

I will admit that I was not too sure of the sensibility of leaving a burning object on an Asphalt street… I have heard of (but not sure I believe it) people setting fire to their residential street by burning leaves in the gutter in the autumn, but I would think that a fusee would be a much hotter and more concentrated fire that could do the same.

I wonder if that police officer also arrests truck drivers for using road flares to protect their broken down semis.[^o)]

In all honesty, I have the utmost respect for the p