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Originally Posted by Phantasm
Horse-drawn trolleys inside a city and mule-, horse-, and/or oxen-drawn wagon trains between cities can be interesting. One other option, of course, is having the tram go downhill from the mining or lumber town to the port trade city without animals, using gravity and the angle of the track to manage movement, though you'd need the animals to drag supplies the other direction.
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You could also use counterweights, such that each loaded cart going down lifts an empty or less-loaded cart up on a parallel track.