Incline rope

[danny]

Not sure if 'Locomotives' is the right place to post this, but it is about haulage of wagons. I'm making a model of an incline into a mine, and I wondered what I should use for the ropes. I was going to use cotton thread.

[Graeme Dunbar]

Perhaps "shirring elastic":
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=shirring+elastic&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=11804559234&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9854415691625205566&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&ref=pd_sl_305o7vnrwn_e

Perhaps a bit over scale at 0.75 mm diameter.

(I am imagining that it will be under a bit of tension to keep it taught. Whether it will be stiff enough to haul wagons up an incline, I'm not sure.)

[Hobby]

Check out JdF's Cliffhanger layout and see what he uses, I seem to remember that he'd tried several types of "rope" but I don't know what he finally decided on!