. Elements of railroad track and construction . Fig. 201. to keep the end posts in a vertical position. No postwill withstand the pull of the wires unless it is securelybraced. One of the simplest forms of brace is shownat e e, Fig. 201. This brace e e should not be less than. Fig. 202. 3 by 4 inches in cross-section, and should be bothnotched into the posts and securely nailed to the there is a long piece of continuous fence, at inter-vals a post should be braced both ways (Fig. 202),as it costs very httle more and adds greatly to the 370 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION. security o
. Elements of railroad track and construction . Fig. 201. to keep the end posts in a vertical position. No postwill withstand the pull of the wires unless it is securelybraced. One of the simplest forms of brace is shownat e e, Fig. 201. This brace e e should not be less than. Fig. 202. 3 by 4 inches in cross-section, and should be bothnotched into the posts and securely nailed to the there is a long piece of continuous fence, at inter-vals a post should be braced both ways (Fig. 202),as it costs very httle more and adds greatly to the 370 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION. security of the fence, and also allows the wires to bestretched in sections. 388. Setting Fence Posts.—The depth to which postsare planted, or set in the ground, depends almost entirelyupon the kind of post. The post for the post and raifence described in ^ 382 extends into the ground 2 feetThis amount is ample, both on account of the bottom ofthe post being much larger in cross-section than the top,and also, from the nature of the fence, much less strainis brought upon the post than on a wire fence it is poor economy to use posts that are too light,wire fence posts are often as small as 4 inches in diameterat the top and very little larger at the bottom; this, inad
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