funicular

• They walked through the main street and turned off up a narrow side street leading to the funicular, a new way of travelling to Charity. —  Two Weeks To Remember
• She sat staring out of its window at the town unrolling itself below as the funicular climbed steadily up the side of the mountain. —  Two Weeks To Remember
• She could see one just above the terminal of the Peak's funicular. —  Noble House
• The catenary is a physical curve, sometimes identified as the funicular curve, rather than a formally geometric curve, a physical curve which lies at the center of the most crucial foundations of modern European physical science, including such outcomes as the Leibniz-Jean Bernouilli development of the crucial physical principle of a universal physical principle of least action. —  LaRouche's Latest
• A funicular, per - haps. —  Rendezvous with Rama

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