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I was just wondering if someone can indentify for me this object: <br /> <br />It is placed on the inside side of one rail it is made out of 3 major parts. <br />Two of them are metal plates tilted by some 45 degree towards each other, and between them is a circular metal object from which a cable goes under the rail somewhere beside the tracks. <br />The whole thing is placed near a signal. <br /> <br />Is this something for derailing trains? <br /> <br /> <br />and one more thing. Wherever I see active tracks, there is a dark "stain" on the right hand side of rails The stain is a long line goes for kilometers as if something is driping from the train on the right side. It looks like oil. It is on every track, everywhere I go. What is that?
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