I asked my work to order me six rolls of blue tissue paper and six rolls of white tissue paper. Six rolls is the pack size, so no worries.

I went to collect it (on the hottest day of 2022, dammit). Instead of two packs there was a mountain of it. They had ordered six packs of blue and six packs of white. About 5-7 years supply for my small workshop.

I quote this often, but usually say "the French"

Some people just aren't cut out to tow big trailers.

I know a guy who has lost two boats off trailers on motorways this year. One written off one went to manufacturer for ££££ repair. Thankfully neither belonged to our club but we banned him from towing our trailer after that.

Not rightly sure as I never stuck my head that deep in signalling land (signal designers are tossers). I would imagine that the 650V AC signalling power system can't provide a sustained power enough to run the heaters.

Yep, we designed a lot of cable routes for EPH back when I did rail civils design. Biggest headache was just getting 240/415V power to the trackside in the right place. Some places needed new supplies or in the extreme even new substations. I can see why chucking a bottle of propane on the trackside, controlling it via the signalling and changing the bottle twice every winter is attractive.

On the other hand someone would probably steal the propane bottle.

Almost certainly. I think some of these films were actually made outside North America too, so what the hell does "domestic" mean then?