ceo, on 13 June 2014 - 12:52 PM, said:
Cannon in NH installed a Pullman-Berry double in 1973, replacing a T-bar. It was originally the New Peabody Double, even though the (old) Peabody Double was still in use. Its unreliability caused it to get nicknamed the Hong Kong chair, and that name actually made it onto the signage and trail maps for a few years. Eventually it was officially renamed the Gremlin Chair. Both it and Peabody were replaced in 2000 or thereabouts; the replacement (on a different alignment) is called the Eagle Cliff Chair.
The story I heard when I asked why Cannon's Gremlin was called "The Hong Kong" was, when the mechanics changed some failing bearing (presumably prematurely) they discovered they were made in China and henceforth referred to the old Pullman Berry as "The Hong Kong Double". It was replaced in 1999.
This post has been edited by SuperRat: 14 June 2014 - 08:09 AM