The latest issue of Trains Magazine, March 2005, on page 97 shows a Rock Island RR worker clearing snow from a switch using a pipe & hose connected to the train line air pressure. If you lose a grip on that tool, it will do serious damage, but the real reason you don’t want it on your railroad is too bloody to describe with out warning you to NOT read on. Just get rid of it, and identify it in the safety rules to never be made, used, or suggested to use.
Stop reading, as you do not want to know this! You do not want to know the reason why it was ban from existing on the PRR, P-NYCT Co., PCRR, or CR.
In a spur of the moment, all employees get the urge to goof around and this tool was used to goose someone in the butt and killed him with an exploded. ……rest edited as just the thought is terrible. Save your fellow employee's life and just get rid of that tool if you ever see it on your railroad.