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Those tracks look like wood🤨 That can't be normal, right?
Hardened steel is used for railway tracks because it's more wear resistant, but it's also more brittle and prone to failure along grain boundaries.
Are you talking about the planks the track's laid on? Pretty normal for that to be wood actually. The AMTRACK tracks in the USA DC area are all like that.
This particular rail system is pretty clearly using reinforced concrete ties.
It's concrete. The destroyed one shows the reinforced rebars
The sleepers are reinforced concrete, the rails are very, very strengthened steel. It looks like wood because of the way it failed.
This is gore for me.
What?