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Paradise Chair
Lower Station
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Up Line
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Ptarmigan Chair
Lower Station
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Up Line
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Down Line
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Top Station
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Yan Type 10 Grip
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Summit Platter
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Down Line
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Top Station
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Lower Station
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[U]T-Bar
Summit
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Line
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Base
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Top of the World
Up Line
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Down Line
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Top Station
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Base Station
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Old Gondola
Up Line
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Down Line
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Top Station
Aux Drive Bullwheel
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Aux Engine
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Bullwheel Pinion Gear
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Gear Joint
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Drive Gearbox
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Service Brake
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Top Station Overview
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Top Station Turnaround
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More Old Gondola
Lower Station
Cabin Parking
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Counterweight Pit
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Electric Drive(Maybe?) Motor
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Electronic Components
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Turnarround with Grips and Hanger Arms
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Replacement Sheave Storage
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Von Roll Grips
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Lower Station Exterior
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The counterweight pit for this gondola is extremely deep. We were not able to see the counterweight in the pit or the bottom with a large maglite. The cable is still on some of the upper towers and where its not up its laid across the ground. This may have changed since then. They said the that the only reason that the cable was removed and spooled up partialy is that the new gondola crosses the line at about the same height.

I'm just curious Bryan, who let you in the bottom building of the old gondola?
This post has been edited by Zage: 30 August 2005 - 09:23 AM

Rick from mountain ops got a few of the maintenance guys to take me down there and they gave me all the info they knew about it.

That's the guy that contacted me back from LL/RCR about the Yan grips.

any idea if we can get a vr 101 grip for museum purposes??is everything still there??

Those pics were taken back in the spring of 05, when I went by in the fall of '07 it appeared that the towers were still there. Since the gondola building was being used for storage and the boneyard is located behind it, and all of the parts had been sitting for quite some time, it is probably unlikely that anything significant has been moved. You would have to contact LL to be sure though.

thank you much.ill contact them very soon.i picked up a old cwa cabin recently and i want to make a complete gondola.i have other vonroll items as well.i also build model vr 101s..thanks again
robert

Robert,
When it's tax supported, it's called a MUSEUM. When it is a personal endevour, it's called a SHRINE!
Good luck with your preservation project!

Dino

Lift Dinosaur, on Sep 18 2008, 08:14 PM, said:

Does that alone make one a Shriner ? Or should we resign ourselves to be museum pieces ?

Also Lake Louise did also have a few cabins from the old gondola sitting in the boneyard, I didn't get a close look at them though so I have no idea of the condition. Good luck with acquiring the parts you desire, it would be nice to see a few older lifts in preserved condition just for the sake of ski history.

i filed for tax elimation status in july as a historical piece of aerial transportation..the irs said i need more information on the historical value of the vonroll type 101.like item i have,pictures,books, log books from different vr 101s.so far i have a cwa gondola from a vr 101,the operation manuals for the disneyland skyway.one from 1979 and a very rare one i picked up from a old friend of mine that use to work for vonroll in wattertown new york.the original operation manual from june of 1956 on the vonroll type 101 at disneyland.im still waiting on a responce....thanks for everyones support.


robert
vonroll type 101 grip