Wire switching

[Marcus Marcusson]

Here's a capstan - actually it's four of them at the place - used to pull
wagons from a minor marshalling yard to a indistrual track:

http://win2003.abc.se/m10901/RAIL/segestickfundament.html

I presume the transports used to be managed by horses - or perhaps
tractors - the last couples of hundred yards since the small industries -
a local electricity board and a brewery - hardly had a switching engine
of their self.

/M
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[Marcus Marcusson]

> A couple places in the US have paved the rails - ala trolly tracks, and
> fitted a 'coupler' to the back of a fork lift.

Though not paved, here's another version of cable-hauled railway track:

http://mac.abc.se/~pictor/RAIL/mlj.html#linspel