An odd, and perhaps undesirable, situation.
What I expected was a recipe similar to powered rails with iron instead of gold, but instead the recipe is like rails minus the stick.
This creates the situation that many people, for example out of laziness of chopping wood, will use activator rails instead of ordinary rails as long as they do not plan for their track to use TNT carts specifically.
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OK, that's true, I didn't think about the quantity difference. Still that only solves the potential undesirable situation. I still find the recipe odd however, as it differs from the other redstone based rail recipes (an inconsistency). :/ The mods can slap a "works as intended" on this if they want, but I'll probably continue to nag about it on the forums. ;P
That might be possible, and I hope so. Recipe inconsistencies probably just bother me to an OCD-like level due to me not using the wiki the first months I played Minecraft. xD Yes, even if the recipe is so simple you can't possibly miss it when you make rails, oh well. :/
This is not a bug, but a feature request, and should be posted on the MC forums here.
You only get 6 rails.