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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock Actually, one thing that might be more appropriate to a smaller town in the 1880's is a cable car--before trolleys came about, they were more efficient than horse-drawn street cars, and were widely used. I think Bachmann makes a powered San Francisco style cable car, and you don't even have to worry about overhead power with cable cars--just make a little loop with super-tight curve radii, provide a little brick building for use as the powerhouse/cable-house, and you're all set! [/quote] Don't forget the "groove" between the rails for the cable to sit in. There's a cable hauled line up in Llandudno (North Wales) that has two sections (upper and lower), the lower section is built as "street running" with the cable running in a groove in the roadway between the rails, while the upper section isn't paved in - all the pulleys, etc and the cable are visible. I'd say the former system would be the easier one to model, as all you'd have to do would be to leave a small channel in the paving between the rails.
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