A single track system of rope haulage in which a double-drum haulage engine at
the unloading terminal winds the main rope on one drum. The train or trip of
cars is connected to the other end of the main rope and also to a tail rope
that extends to the inner terminal in the mine, around a tail sheave, and then
back over idler sheaves at one side of the haulageway to the other drum at the
haulage engine. See also: rope haulage
Source:
Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
