Ukrainian Armed Forces strike railway tracks in Kursk's Lgov, says mayor

According to Klemeshov, four arrivals were recorded in the city. Two residential buildings and the railway tracks of the Lgov-Kyiv station were damaged. There was also a fire in a warehouse of one of the city's factories. No residents were injured.

“I do not recommend that anyone who left the city return until the situation has finally stabilized,” the mayor wrote.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Those tracks look like wood🤨 That can't be normal, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lemonmelon 11 points 5 months ago

This particular rail system is pretty clearly using reinforced concrete ties.

[–] supercriticalcheese 1 points 5 months ago

It's concrete. The destroyed one shows the reinforced rebars

[–] Siegfried 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What?