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Railroad tracks that were built in the early 1900s were constructed from steel. The steel was used to replace rail tracks and railway cars that were built from iron prior to the early 1900s.
Inside mines. Long before railroads were built.
The tracks have a larger coefficient of linear expansion than the ground beneath.
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The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a transportation means built from California to Utah between 1863 and 1869. The CPRR was the western part of North America's First Transcontinental Railroad. The CPRR's tracks met with Union Pacific tracks in Promontory, northern Utah, on May 10, 1869.
Andrew Carnegie worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He continually created products they needed to solve those problems and made the companies to produce them. Eventually he owned a number of different companies producing a variety of products. He took a trip back to his home in Scotland. In England he saw the Bessemer Converter producing steel. He realized that steel railroad tracks would be far superior to iron tracks. He returned to the United States and sold all his companies and built a steel mill using the Bessemer Converter. He sold railroad tracks. Other companies in the United States had built Bessemer Converters before he did. He was the first to use the steel for railroad tracks. Since iron tracks wore out in few years, there was tremendous demand for Carnegie railroad tracks. He not only build the factory but also saw where its products were needed.
Since the 1870's railroad tracks have been built almost exactly the same. The tie is the wooden beam the keeps the rail (steel usually) off the ground, the rail is connected to the tie with two spikes on either side, and gravel as the base.
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The transcontinental railroad was built by the Union Pacific Railroad going west from Omaha, Nebraska. They built their part of the railroad to Promontory, Utah. The Central Pacific Railroad built the other part of the transcontinental railroad starting in Sacramento, California and built east meeting the Union Pacific Railroad.