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The steel wheels run along the steel rails. The Rails themselves used to be bolted together with plates, and each section of rail was 39 feet long. Modern welded rail still occasionally has bolted joints, but pieces of rail can now be more than a mile in length.

The clickity-clack sound occurs when the steel wheel rolls across the small gap between each section of rail at the joint that's bolted together.

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