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Siegfried & Roy?

Argentine at Keystone but I don't know the passengers. Maybe the Dercums?
This post has been edited by boardski: 09 October 2014 - 07:29 PM

You have been on the school of mines archive.

http://digitool.libr...SM01&pid=322633

Yan Kazinski and Rick Jewett

A lift on this map

That leaves the old I-lift since B-1 rotated the other direction. Weren't the non galvanized chairs at copper that butterscotch orange color instead of the flat black?

My apologies, those are two guys in that first photo. Sometimes more difficult to tell when people are in their jackets.

Yep. ;)

Janek Kunczynski and Rick Jewett, P.E.
The chairs came from Carson City in flat black. Copper would later paint the "copper".
Dino

I always thought it looked like orange, or about the same shade of orange that many Slow signs use.

It's not called "Orange Mountain". It would have been tough to come up with a color, in 1972, that looked like metallic copper.
Just my $19.76.
Dino

Still is, I'd guess. For what it's worth, the paint cans say 'Copper Wire'.

I always thought the design of the bottom terminal of I-Lift was cool (the raised drive with only the uphill side held down for the loading station which was actually at "tower 2". IIRC the depression sheave train on "tower 2" was welded to the operator shack also. Downhill side did not involve "tower 2". The design was very similar to current Bashor lift at Steamboat.
The second lift originating out of that pod, which would become the 'J-lift' 4 years later, must have been part of the original plan.
This post has been edited by boardski: 24 October 2014 - 08:31 AM

From same photo collection at School of mines

So that's the clearing where the Timberline Express lift now begins. Is that a photo from construction or removal or somewhere in between?

Looks like construction. The concrete pad under the shack appears pretty fresh. Incidentally, if you ride Blackjack/chair 4 these days you can see the square torch-cut hole on the back of the top shack. That's where the old hold-down arm was.