Railroad Fuses Or Road Flares.. What Do You Call Them And What's The Difference?

[@GG-fh2dh]

Have a good Christmas. And keep up the good videos

[@MrEferrell]

Fusee, not fuse. Road flare: A flare, also sometimes called a fusée, fusee. Don't let 'em get you down. Either description is correct. Nit-pickers will alaways pick nits!

[@jaybo3303]

We called them fusee’s on the railroad I worked on here in Maine.

[@johnwinter8273]

Flare & fusee are interchangeable by most people. My 2 cents, I think a flare is what is shot up in the air for distress. Fusee is placed on the road or ground as a warning. Put either is correct.

[@willkosmider2027]

My father, an old time railroad employee called them fusee .also.

[@jasonoliver5388]

When I worked for the railroad we called them fuses.

[@brucetrainer5729]

Fuse-ee in Canada also. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@AlleyKatt]

I believe the word is spelled "fusee" for what is now known as a railroad fusee, and it's a safety flare (as opposed to a signal flare which burns quite bright for a shorter timeframe). Haven't been able to properly trace, but I think the word "fusee" was coined from "fuse" which was once the name of what we now refer to as a "match" or, more accurately, a large friction match. Would not be at all surprised to someday learn "fusee" was originally coined by a railroad conductor.

[@vmj255]

Happy Sunday, Jason! Hope you got all of your Christmas shopping done. Walmart is nuts.

[@t.j.carroll8512]

Shoot, I'm amazed no one picked one up as a souvenir, a real railroad fuze! Thanks for sharing. 👍

[@BudgieJane]

I'm in the UK and we don't use those things. However, I've always thought they were called fusees, as mentioned by several other people in the comments. I had a good chuckle at your throw-away line about people not running them over. Have a good Christmas. Over here no trains run on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (26 Dec), and the railways take advantage of that stoppage to renew lengths of track that might need upgrading. Perhaps the ELS could do the same thing.

[@erie910]

Railroad rule books call them "fusees." They look like flares, but they will burn longer.

[@buzz191saw]

Railroaders call them fuses, cops call them flares. Railroad fuses are usually shorter and burn shorter. Traffic flares are longer have a stand and usually burn approximately 30 minutes.

[@MarvUSA]

Oh for FS....You can call them what you want. While in the FD, the cases said "fuses" on it. Nice catch again. I've called them Road Flares for years. It doesn't freeking mater. !!!

[@erie910]

Actually, per railroad rules, they're "fusees."

[@eliasthienpont6330]

Fus-ie A Fusee A fuz-iee A fusee is a red signal to the following train. When it burns out then the signal is clear. The flagman drops 15 or 30 minute fusee behind his train if he thinks there is another train close on to his.

[@johnd4101]

Right. fusée, not "fuse" or "flare." pronounced "fewz-AY." Check it out.

[@GotOxygenO2]

Railroad _fusee_ . The older ones had a nail or a spike on the non-burning end so it could be jammed into a tie and stand up.

[@kenmcgory8768]

Yup! I looked it up just to be sure - "fusee, NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH - a railroad signal flare."

[@kittty2005]

@ 6:25 Ya know we had some beagles that got stuck maybe turn a garden hose on those engines the shock might break them apart works on beagles might work on EMDs,LOLLOL.

[@ramtuff2007]

good train video

[@marienelson680]

Marry christmas to all the family and also the birds to.

[@williamwargo3066]

When I worked on the railroad and had to stop to flag a crossing, we used Fu-Zees, your flares or fuse. Maybe just a railroad teminology to differant the difference.

[@DavidSquires-iy4uv]

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 🎄 AND HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY FROM DETROIT. THOSE ARE CALLED, EITHER ROAD FLARES OR FUSES. 5:10

[@RobertLambeth-o3d]

Jason I've always heard them called road flares or flares

[@viper3378]

The proper pronunciation is fusee phews-eee At least that is what I was taught on the New Haven railroad many years ago.

[@railfannercristian]

Probably getting ready for tomorrow run

[@MrNorth69]

Fusee is the proper term. they are a little different from a flare

[@stnicholas1224]

hay jason its my birthday

[@PeterMarsden-q9s]

Yep, I'd call it a road flare as well

[@paulbergen9114]

😢It is peculiar because if it was for an automobile it was a traffic flare and if it was for railroad use it was a fuse in the Milwaukee Road used to get theirs from a plant in South Beloit IL. Probably to avoid the SD40 on the switch they probably pushed the empties as idlers to grab the loads. I wonder if someone stayed late at Alter to operate their mobile crane to drag the empty . cars back in like last time as the small covered Hopper doesn't quite bridge the gap. Roughly 30 centerbeams going north for a week's worth of production and shipping. Yesterdays FRI DEC 19 Jaw tooth video @17:40. Appeared to have a center beam of siding 3rd car from the rear at night. Thanks for hanging with the train as they might try a quick Southbound Saturday to get rid of one last batch Before Christmas

[@buzz191saw]

Well said

[@jasonhepler9925]

It is road flare Jason so u r right on calling it a road flare

[@eliasthienpont6330]

🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁LION takes LIKE Number 404

[@Ovalaardvark433]

I wonder if the replaced rail removed the circuit, I could be wrong though. Or it could be because the crossing was on for a long time. I wonder if they will have to replace it.

[@sc0tte1-416]

I tried to find the alter metal on Google maps but theres so many I gave up 😂

[@jeanavis1489]

I've never heard them called fuses. Also, tell the people driving down the street that those red signs that say STOP mean you are supposed to stop. It's not just a suggestion.

[@swamprat69er]

You caught that too, eh?

[@RandyStyczynski-sc1gi]

Strange to see that last car going north. That 4-bay is usually used for plastic pellets. Storing it in Channing or offloading it if it’s loaded?

[@thomasboese3793]

Note the discharge gates. The car is set up for plastic pellets. Grain cars have a large flat bottom gate for discharge between the rails. I don't know if there is an online customer for the car.

[@RandyStyczynski-sc1gi]

ELS brings this type of car to FyterTech on Bond Street. I also seen a post from Crivitz offloading to a semi tank type trailer

[@thomasboese3793]

Welcome to English Language 101: Words can have the same meaning, just spelled differently, and their meaning and spelling can change over the years. Both are right/wrong, it all depends on who you talk to and when you/they first learned the word. It helps to have an enforcer at large to keep things in line and simple. Does anybody want to go back to King James English? Anybody??!

[@kittty2005]

They're the same thing but it's french fus`ee, not fuses, Yes they are the same now but there was a time when they lasted much longer than road flares they also have a little devise called a torpedo which is a packet of nitroglycerin about the size and shape of a packet of sugar and is laid on the rail in 3 places at a certain spacing to give oncoming traffic a warning of something fouling the track ahead so they can stop intime. I remembered that I had studied the engineers manual so much when I was younger that I aced the examination ,but gave up because everyone I knew convinced me that railroading would be obsolete. I could have done most anything I had the aptitude for electronics in the navy, but I just gave up and went to building windows in a local factory. Always follow your dream.

[@daledrawbond1222]

Cool (Hot) video Jason! Go light up a fusee to celebrate!

[@kittty2005]

Well you prompted me to ask you what do the brits call a flash light, well fuses are more than wicks some act like circuit breakers or you can fuse two parts by welding to make them one.

[@denisberger9657]

Brits call a flashlight a Torch

[@londonwhaley8690]

I enjoy the video👍👍

[@csxtrainfan319]

I just call it flares. Also is it normal for those mechanical bells struggling to work in the winter? Or is it just me.

[@davidbrown4823]

Safety Flares.

[@swamprat69er]

WOW! That is a pretty long drag.

[@MarvUSA]

It’s not the railroad making the video, but thanks for the info

[@charlesbennett8700]

Railroads call them fuses, but vehicles call them flares. They are actually the same thing. I don't know why the railroad calls them fuses.

[@FishKepr]

Our road flares are labeled ‘fuse’.

[@williamf.552]

This rr sure has alot of things break down.

[@williamchristy8123]

After watching ELS 502 go slowly Iron Mountain, I just found out that to the west of me in Pecos, Tx the track speed is 70 mph. WOW

[@rompinroger9614]

And they have 2 people dead and 25 cars derailed in the last 2 or 3 days.

[@BudgieJane]

@@rompinroger9614 That's because a trucker stalled his truck on a crossing and nobody called the railroad to get the train to stop. The trucker didn't speak English, so couldn't understand the signs telling him what to do.

[@miken3260]

@@BudgieJane some say. That the cops were there for 45 minutes and they didn’t call them either?

[@cnoonan321]

Fusee. A fuse goes in the fuse box

[@humphries71]

im subscribed to your channel have been for a long time

[@jasonasselin]

I know that.. Lucky to have people like you helping support this channel. Hope you like this early view before others!

[@georgewilson119]

What is the speed when street running

[@lukebonagura5265]

Alter Metal didn't waste any time loading those cars.

[@25mfd]

fusees burn for *10 minutes*

[@pjl0830]

Railroad = fusee Highway = flare same basic thing.

[@rodgodx345]

Why haven’t they fix the railroad crossing yet do they not care about their railroad?

[@jonwalker5014]

A 'fuse' predates the word 'flare' by over 100 years! It a railroad and military term to describe part of the explosive powder used to explode a bomb! In RR terms a fuse was a light explosive charge or package laid across the rail by a brakeman or conductor as a warning to following trains on a track that an incident on the rails lay ahead! It exploded whenever a railcar wheel ran over it. Produces a loud noise and bright explosion to warn the crew

[@cris_261]

Railroads referred to the light explosive charge placed on the rail head as a torpedo. At least that's what I've seen it called in print.

[@BudgieJane]

@@cris_261 In the UK we call them detonators.

[@prandn]

Google: what is a railroad flare called & why? Fusee & there can be a difference or not… 🤔🙃

[@quest2outdoors]

There’s always one in the crowd that has to be politically right🤪😂🤣

[@richardmead9225]

Spelled fusee. Fu see

[@cynicbeliever40]

Road flare.

[@humphries71]

ive always known them as flares

[@GregMcLeod-ic6xo]

It is pronounced fyoo-zee. No kidding. I could not find a definition that differed from flare. Must be a railroad thing.

[@harveypeters9015]

I dunno, why?

[@shaunannis]

road light lol

[@paulsmith5398]

They are "FUS'EE"s, "its French, you know!

[@odieboss1417]

Why do people always have to mess up train cars by putting their marks on them? That should be illegal, because they are degrading public property.

[@MrNorth69]

You mean private property and it is 100% illegal. problem is they tag them under the cover of darkness..most of it's done in east LA, Chicago and Kansas City where they have huge yards. so I don't it's possible to stop it just based on the sheer amount of tracks and railcars..

[@JamesKubajak-c1i]

Fried chicken and waffles?🍗🧇