Re: CSO - Trivia

From: <Christopher>
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 20:59:00 EDT

>Does anyone know where the term "car seal" comes from?
I'll take a pretty good guess. Car seals are thin metal bands that fit in the door latch on a freight car. The door can't be opened without breaking the seal. One end of the metal strip fits into a capturing slot fitted to the other end like a cable tie. I think they have some sort of identification marking on them as well, so you know whether it's been re-sealed. I've seen lock-out boxes that were sealed with something like a freight car seal, so the switch couldn't be returned to the closed position without actually destroying the seal.

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