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I've often wondered why the companies don't have some sort of "plug" every so often, one for hot weather and one for cold, that they could bolt in depending on the season, as it is right now, at the end of every winter they have literaly hundreds of new joints (where the rail broke) that they have to welded. Granted there would still be some broken rails simply because of fatigue, but it would be a lot less, and there would still be some expansion issues as well, but I believe they would have a lot less alignment issues in the summer time. It seems it would be cost effective, but maybe not.
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