Funicular/Cable car/Cog railway? (N-gauge)

[Rigby]

I want to have a two deck layout because I cannot build what I want to operate on one level. The issue is that I do not have room for a helix (without carving a huge corner out of a room) and I do not have room for a winding mainline climb with a reasonable grade.

The first deck of my layout is at sea level, or near it. The second deck is a logging/quarrying layout in the mountains. I am considering doing a funicular or maybe a cog railway between the levels to convey logs and granite from the top to the bottom. Has anyone done one or seen pictures of one? They existed in real life, someone must have modeled it.

 

[BNSF dude]

Try modeling the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway in Colorado? Here's their site: http://www.cograilway.com/

 

[UP2CSX]

There were many logging operations that used cable ways. A cog railway or funicular would be almost unheard of. A cable way consisted of one of three methods - skidding, slinging, or cable way flat cars. There's an excellent site at http://www.steaminthewoods.com/catalogs.htm that has a lot of information from manufacturer's catalogs about to rig cableways.