1945 Popular Mechanics article TNT Special

[wanswheel]

https://books.google.com/books?id=qN8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82&dq=%22highballing+off+to+the+wars%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFgNLfyavRAhVMTCYKHUWRB_wQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22highballing%20off%20to%20the%20wars%22&f=true

[AgentKid]

Thank you very much.

This is an example of when the internet works best. Bringing information forward to everyone which otherwise may have been lost.

And the article brought back a memory I had forgotten. In the station at Irricana there was a collection of placards for use on freight cars, and there were a couple of the red Explosive placards mentioned in the article. I can't imagine why they would have been needed at Irricana though. EDIT: They may have been there as replacements for any placards that may have fallen off. They may have been part of a standard package of placards, because I still can't think of why there would be explosives going by the station.

This was the most interesting thing I have seen all day, to this point. Thanks.

Bruce

 

[Penny Trains]

I don't have sound so I put on the closed captioning.  (Give that a try and see what crazy words come up.)  The reason I put on the captions was that I was wondering if they mentioned the tonnage of the munitions that went up in Frisco.  (Or "Frasninscuo" as I saw once in the captioning.)  Being a war time film I'd be surprised if they could.