Talk:Flashing rear-end device
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[edit] FRED and Wilma
Ha ha! I hadn't heard that one before, and I had to think about it for a bit until I realized that the HOT (Wilma) works with the FRED. I think we could improve the wording a bit to make the pun a little more clear to the reader. Slambo (Speak) 11:14, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
- Feel free to make the association clearer. I can't think of a clever way to put it at the moment, but that's maybe because I'm exhausted from working on Railway signalling#Signaling in the U.S. and Direct Traffic Control...(sorry, I just had to throw those in...they need work, but I'm proud of what I started...) cluth 04:11, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
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- A few days ago, I reworded the FRED/Wilma association. Also, I'm posting a picture of a Wilma. Clearer? cluth 09:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Camera on FRED
As a kid playing around on the RR tracks, we always used to hide after the train went past in order to avoid being seen by the camera on the flashing end of train device. After reading this article, I feel duped by an urban legend. It doesn't sound like there's any camera that's used to record mischievious little kids.
None of the FREDs I know of are equipped with cameras, but that doesn't mean the locomotive's event recorder isn't. Bearda 19:47, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Another meaning for FRED
It's my understanding that the "F" in Flashing is sometimes explained as referring to another common English word that begins with that letter. 4.243.206.78 00:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- That's likely a backronym definition. All of the resource material that I've seen uses "flashing". Slambo (Speak) 11:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Of course the source material would say that it was flashing. But for people working the trains, its commonly called the f***ing rear end device. Part of the reason this name got picked up is because the FRED made the caboose obsolete and took away jobs from people. So of course they got a little sore. If someone wants to put this in the article, feel free. But a source would be recommended. Alyeska 04:54, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
