Show steel rope hauls trains the renel renewing ng ot of the ropo rope used daily in pulling all the london trains out ol of glasgow fiam queen street high level station over the Cow lairs gradient the first mile and a half of which la Is so BO steep as to exceed the power ot of the locomotive his just been completed says an english journal the ropo rope m which aich Is made 0 f steel wire and Is three miles long iong costs 3 and lasts aiom ten to twelve months it la Is end less and lies iles on the surface of 0 the up and down tracks supported on oil iron pulleys dipping lat at either cither end at glasgow each train ils Is fastened on to it by a chain alcad lament end ahe he rope being set la in 14 w wf y ti 0 at 00 lairs pulls pulla the the summits from which m point it continues the journey unassisted |