Rails are made of steel and usually have additives in the alloy such as manganese to increase strength and wearability. Nice that your section had the “1925” roll date. Rail weights are “per yard”; that is 130-pound rail weighs 130 pounds per three-foot section. Interesting to see what .50 BMG can do to solid rail. No wonder .50 on target could shred airplane engines or flame an aircraft. John Moses Browning was quite an inventor. I have shot plenty of steel with smaller rounds such as 7.62×54 and 5.56 as well as pistol rounds. While these smaller rounds are plenty good at going through flesh, they are rather unimpressive when they hit steel. I did not expect the .50 to even go through the .500″ track side, much less through the 1″ top. Wow. Incredible power.
