ss20, on 05 November 2014 - 06:36 PM, said:
The Grand Summit always confused the hell outta me. I've heard it was retrofitted earlier, before the rest of the retrofits. Was the bottom terminal skin original up until 2012, when Poma did (more) work to the lift? Don't know of any other Yan HSQ's with any original terminal after the summer of 97'.
Quoth www.chairlift.org from their page on Mt. Snow's lifts (
http://www.chairlift.org/mtsnow.html), this is what they say on their photo section for the Grand Summit Express lift:
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This chair follows the line of the former summit gondola which it replaced.
It was originally built in 1987 by Yan and called the Yankee Clipper Quad. Around 1997 the quad received its first rebuild by
Poma and was renamed the Clipper. When the grand summit hotel was built the quad received another name change to Grand
Summit Express. The lift has also undergone additional upgrades by Poma since then. When first modified the summit terminal
looked like the base terminal with no glass top. The chair was upgraded a second time to increase capacity and the glass top was
added to the summit terminal. The last pic shows the 2 layers of modification (notice the 2 different layers of green sheet metal).
Row two shows the chair following its 2011 renovation where the lift received new Leitner-Poma chairs and base terminal upgrades.
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