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The fusees I recall on the Milwaukee Road during the 1960s had cardboard roll extension handles so they were handy to use for giving hand signs.  The fusees that I have seen sold for highway safety have always had the steel spike extending from the end so they can be stuck in the ground and remain standing upright on their own.  However, I believe some railroads used this style as well, so they could be left standing, usually with the spike stuck into a tie.  In the recent era, the steel spike extended from a wooden plug that fit into the end of the fusee casing.  I found one of these fusee spikes dating from pre-1900 using a metal detector.  Instead of a wooden plug, which would have, long since rotted away, the spike was anchored in and extending from a cast iron plug sized to fit the casing of the fusee.  Leave to the railroads of that era to use cast iron in their fusees.    
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