It is useful on a hauling line to create loops that can be used as handholds.
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The velocity ratio of a tackle is the ratio between the velocity of the hauling line to that of the hauled load.
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Unlike the municipally-owned London and Port Stanley Railway, the South Western Traction Company was chartered primarily as a passenger hauling line.
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This results in a nicer looking knot of a lesser weight, minimizing the potential danger of hurting someone with the knot when hauling line.
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The Beech Mountain Railroad at Alexander, in North Central West Virginia Rosters an S-2, numbered 113 and an S-4, numbered 115 for their 8 mile long coal hauling line.
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Interestingly, the never-completed alignment of the N & S in Montana continues to receive attention as a possible rail corridor today this time by the Tongue River Railroad, a proposed coal-hauling line between the Decker, Montana area and Miles City.