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Metal railroad rail cannot be laid touching each other, in hot weather they would expand and push against each other, possibly causing a misalignment of that rails and a train wreck.

Long bridges will have the same problems, whether mad of steel, concrete or dome other substance. Too much expansion fro hot weather could cause buckling and possible collapse of the bridge. Cold weather could cause extreme contraction and again possibly bridge collapse.

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