. The railway library . each side, with two screw-bolts passing through the plates andrails, as shown in the diagram. On the Philadelphia and ReadingRailroad, rails of the same form have been adopted. ^V^^- Figs. 21 and 22 show another construction, which I observedon several of the railroads. It was proposed with a view to coun-teract the efifects of frost. Round piles of timber, marked a, abouttwelve inches in diameter, are driven into the ground as far as theywill go, at the distance of three feet apart from center to tops are cross-cut, and the rails are spiked to them
. The railway library . each side, with two screw-bolts passing through the plates andrails, as shown in the diagram. On the Philadelphia and ReadingRailroad, rails of the same form have been adopted. ^V^^- Figs. 21 and 22 show another construction, which I observedon several of the railroads. It was proposed with a view to coun-teract the efifects of frost. Round piles of timber, marked a, abouttwelve inches in diameter, are driven into the ground as far as theywill go, at the distance of three feet apart from center to tops are cross-cut, and the rails are spiked to them in the sameway as in the Camden and Amboy Railway, which is shown inFigs. 19 and 20. The heads of the piles are furnished with an ironstrap, to prevent them from splitting; and the rails are connectedtogether at every five feet by an iron bar.
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