Trolley Diner

Sui generis example from Falmouth, Kentucky, in a photo postcard. Click to big.

From a recent listing for sale by

Cable Railway Cable Tube

Here's an excellent picture from the June 7, 1884 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, illustrating how the cable railway cable is carried in a protective tube yet can still be gripped by the Grip. [Click on the pic to make it bick. Uh. big.]

Here's a link to the front page of that issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Thanks to Steve Kirch for sending nearly two thousandof SciAm cover scans for the MagazineArt.org site; we've got over 1000 of them online at the current time, with many more on the way.