SoDo Sign Zen: No Hammers

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The parking lot of the SoDo Home Depot abuts a railway track — perhaps a spur line or a storage area for the more active line that occasionally cuts off east-west traffic between Occidental Ave S and 3rd South. On one of the boxcars stored there was the curious admonition pictured above. No text, just the imperative against hammers. Any ideas what it could mean?


2 Comments so far

  1. Manuel (unregistered) on April 30th, 2006 @ 10:14 pm

    Also spotted on a train car carrying grain near a flour mill on Harbor Island:
    http://buffoonery.org/oldphotolog/imageview.php?date=02.25.03&number=11
    Maybe it has to do with the flammable gases that can build up in a container of grain. Hammers make sparks?


  2. eldan (unregistered) on April 30th, 2006 @ 11:57 pm

    I think you’re right about the sparks, because I saw a text version of the warning on another railcar north of downtown today. I don’t remember exactly what it said, but it was definitely something about flammable contents and it specified that one shouldn’t hammer on that car.

    Now I wonder if someone could tell me what the “no humping” I saw written on another car might mean? It gave me some delightful mental images.



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