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Fusee = flare, but flare seems more like the highway term.  I never heard railroaders call them anything but fusees, but I suppose there might have been regional differences in the use of the term.  Doesn't fusee mean rocket in French or some other language?Torpedoes were plenty loud.  They made sense because they added an audible warning to the visual aspect of flagging, which might be missed by visual distraction.  Impact set them off, but all they apparently required to detonate them was pressure.  I have seen a locomotive run over one at maybe 1/10th mile per hour and it fired.  I am not sure if you could run over one slow enough for it not to fire, but it seemed not.
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