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Re: One broken rail in Wisconsin
Author: Max Wyss
Date: 01-19-2017 - 01:24

It would be nice to have a picture of the surface of the fracture.

My speculation is that a crack started from an irregularity at the drilled hole, and propagated up- and downwards.

Very cold conditions (which can make steel more brittle) could have caused the final fracture.

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