- an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jig+back)
"The tram worked on a double jig-back system, with one car headed down the mountain while the second climbed up; hung on twenty-seven miles of interlocking cable strung out between five massive towers bolted into the mountainside."
- Lori Lansens, The Mountain Story
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