Track torpedo

Track Torpedo. Same as Railroad Torpedo (see in this Vol)... 

Bureau of Explosives, Specifications for Standard Track Torpedoes, Revised February 1, 1949. 

Transporting railway track torpedoes outside of flagging kits, in violation of DOT-E 7991. 171.2(b), (e) 8,700. 

A railway torpedo consists of a flat tin box, of about an ounce capacity, filled with a fulminating composition and having a strip of lead, soldered to it, which may be bent in order to hold it in place upon the railroad track. It explodes when the first wheel of the locomotive strikes it, and produces a signal which is audible to the engineer above the noise of the train. Railway tor-... 

GroKM T-torpedoes, buried beneath tbe suiikce to explode when trodden upon frridge-torpedoes (Haupt s), to rend the timbers or arches of brid in demoUshiog them and ra /uray-torpedoes, to blow up a track when a train passes, are all effisetive military devioea. 

Railway track signal syn. railway fusees or railway torpedo, warning signals placed on railway tracks that produce a loud report when crushed by the train. 

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