"Rick" wrote in message
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Any idea where to buy scrap railway track, if it takes hundreds of

Ask in uk.railway, stating your location, you might even find a
friendly PW engineer on the group...

tonnes of train, it should take a tractor ?


The contact point / supports take less than 20 tonnes, in other words
the axle weight, rail will snap with a well aimed and positioned blow
from a sledge hammer....

It should still be more than strong enough though.