Show steel rope hauls trains the renewing ot the rope used dally in pulling all the london trains out ol 01 glasgow from queen street high level station over the Cow lairs gradient the first mile and a halt of which la steep to exceed the power of the locomotive has just been completed bays an english journal the rope which Is made of steel wire and Is three miles long costs 3 and laete from ten to twelve months it ie end less and lies on the surface ot the up and down tracks supported on iron pulleys dipping underground at either end at glasgow each train Is fastened on to it by a chain arrangement and the rope being set in motion by the stationary engine at cow lairs pulls the train to the summit from which point it continues the journey unassisted |