--- title: Firesnake® Rail Heater featured on Railroad Alaska description: FireSnake® Rail Heater is a clean-burning, worker-safe rail heater for fixing pull-aparts. 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Railroad workers in the episode demonstrate a FireSnake® Rail Heater container being taken from a work truck, and one of it's 10-foot segments being laid alongside a broken rail segment. 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