The mine was worked by hand and the skips run on wooden rails.
Nearby on the same page there is a picture of such wooden rails.
On one of these, Belov stepped down from the wooden rails.
Jack realized that he'd been leaning on the wooden rail.
He drew himself up, putting his hands on the wooden rail in front of him.
An old Indian blanket thrown roughly over a wooden rail came next.
He leaned against the wooden rail and breathed in the evening air.
The woman leaned over the wooden rail of the balcony.
In front of him was a wooden rail covered with red, white, and blue bunting.
He was then ridden to the edge of town on a wooden rail, and left there with the warning not to return.