That video is heavily misleading- it’s from almost 10 years ago showing rails that had been abandoned for around 30 before that. They’ve since been repaired.
Adding on that the footage is shot to make the rails much more bendy than they are and is sped up and slowed down to exaggerate the effects.
Mrchristopherrr t1_j8y0h20 wrote
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That video is heavily misleading- it’s from almost 10 years ago showing rails that had been abandoned for around 30 before that. They’ve since been repaired.
Adding on that the footage is shot to make the rails much more bendy than they are and is sped up and slowed down to exaggerate the effects.
No major rail lines look like that.