I suggest we find a way to remove Railcraft. It's a rob and makes it pointless to even bother using rails for anything
Default Power Rails (x16) = 6 Gold, 1 stick and 1 redstone
Railcraft Power Rails (x16) = 6 Gold Rail Parts*, 1 Stone rail-bed**, 2 Redstone***
*That's 3 iron and 3 gold for only 3 parts, so 6 gold and 6 iron for an actual rail
** This doesn't even show a recipe, but again is much dearer than 1 stick
*** That's one more than vanilla recipe
So that's 14+ things compared to Vanilla's 8 and both give the same output.
Railcraft svcks.
(Vanilla recipes no longer exist either now thanks to it

)
If you'd prefer to use the vanilla recipe scheme, just open the railcraft.cfg file and set the tag "tweaks.rails.useOldRecipes" to true.