A funicular railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope.
Fri, 8 Apr 2011 04:36:56
A funicular railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope.; the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalance each other.
The word is from the Latin funiculus, a diminutive of funis, "rope".
