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Your explanation of the lockout tagout device was incomplete. What you have is designed for jobs where multiple persons or teams sre working on the equipment. That device allows each team to place its oun padlock so that the rquipment cannot be teturned to dervice until all teams have completed their work and removed their lock. If only one person or team was involved that device eould be unnecessary because the padlock could be placed directly on the thing being locked out.
Swastikas are sacred symbols in Hindu religion. Used world wide until Adolf kind of shit the bed with them. They represent Sun Wheels, the Celtic equivalent is the triskele. There are four armed Sun Wheels on the Saxon Shields in The Bayeux Tapestry.
The train hoppers are used for dropping ballast onto the tracks ahead of a Tamper machine. The ballast settles after time with all the traffic using it, and it gets soiled, so is replaced periodically. The Tamper follows the ballast drop, picking up the rail removing old ballast and filling with new ballast, or just topping up and resetting the rail which is out of alignment. Trains run around the country testing the track to see if it has moved from its position and using that information to program the Tampers. To see a tamper pick up a piece of rail that deforms is an astounding sight, given that a rail hardly deforms at all when picked up, this is due to it sitting on the rail when it lifts it. When the Tamper sets the rail, it can exert the equivalent pressure of 500 trains running over the tracks, the method previously employed to do the job of tamping the rails.
The electrical lockout has many holes so many people who are working on a problem put their padlock on it and when they are finished they remove their padlock, only when the last person is finished they remove their padlock and the mechanism and the board can be turned back on.
The husband beater at the end looks well used :P That plastic thing in the munchy bag is likely from the machine that puffed the bag up before sealing it, another great collection of 'wtf is its' :)
The "mistery item" was used to hit the carpets and remove dust before the usage of vacuum cleaners necame common. The carpets were hung on a wire and hit with energy. The dust blew away with each stroke until the carpets were dust free.
the last item is a rug beater. The rug would be hung over a clothesline outside, then this is used to beat the dust out of it. It also works on naughty children. lol
