Powered Rail

Powered Rails are one of the two kinds of rails which were added in 0.8.0. Powered Rails act as boosters to speed up minecarts.

Powered rails do not curve. This means that when creating a curve, you must use normal rails for the track to curve.

Crafting
6 Gold Ingots + 2 Stick + 1 Redstone = 6 Powered Rails

Trivia

 * Powered Rails are not found in Mineshafts unlike regular rails.
 * Before Update 0.13.0, Powered Rails didn't use Redstone to power it up.