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<p>[quote user="Norm48327"]</p> <p><strong>How about hazmat cars loaded with things such as crude, ethanol, LPG, CNG,etc? One could get a bang out of humping them.</strong> <img style="display:inline;" alt="Surprise" /></p> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>I recall sometime in the 60's or 70's on the Alton and Southern a tank car carrying a volitile gas was humped and "bashed" into the string of cars at the bottom going to fast, the result of faulty retarders. The gas was released, and found a spark soon enough. It destroyed about half of the hump yard</p> <p>Of course, even if the car is marked "Do Not Hump", it is questionable how often the sign was and is obeyed by the hump crews.</p>
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