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[Snowy Ferries]

Hello.

I'm curious: Does anyone know the make&model of the cabins on the Whistler Village Gondola? Not the Sigma replacements, but the ones on there right now?

[Peter]

Snowy Ferries, on 01 August 2014 - 06:02 PM, said:

Hello.
I'm curious: Does anyone know the make&model of the cabins on the Whistler Village Gondola? Not the Sigma replacements, but the ones on there right now?

They are Poma/Sigma as well.

[woofydoggie]

Did poma offer these replacements? Stratton ang Whistler had the same cabins installed in the same year and are getting replaced this year

This post has been edited by woofydoggie: 12 August 2014 - 06:15 PM

[Backbowlsbilly]

I would guess that they did, when I was at the LP plant they had a proposed cabin made for Stratton by Sigma in hopes of getting Stratton to get the new cabins.

[teachme]

I'm in Whistler this week for the mountain bike fest. I had a chat with a lift maintenance guy and he said that the new cabins are 8 person as opposed to the older ones being 10 (personal opinion: 10 if they are skinny only!!) but that the new cabins are lighter and have less wind resistance meaning they can put more cabins on the line and run it about 10% faster.

This is all second had so with a grain of salt, but perhaps some truth??

TME

[Aussierob]

No plans to run the WVG faster, but this was considered. The ability to fully load each cabin means we will see a capacity increase. Right now we're trying to decide if we put the ski racks on the doors or not.

[woofydoggie]

But some people cant appericate french art. :P

[snoloco]

Any idea why the old ones have the crappy "seats" and not the more comfortable ones that CWA Omega's had. How hard could it have been to install real seats when these were designed.

[Aussierob]

They are 10 passenger cabins. There simply isn't room for real seats. The cabins were designed to be stand up, with the seat "rail" to sit on if the cabin is not full. It allows for larger passenger capacity in less volume.

[Peter]

Aussierob, on 31 August 2014 - 07:13 PM, said:

They are 10 passenger cabins. There simply isn't room for real seats. The cabins were designed to be stand up, with the seat "rail" to sit on if the cabin is not full. It allows for larger passenger capacity in less volume.

Same is true with buses and subways. The more seats, the lower the capacity and longer it takes to load and unload. Boston has started running subway cars with no seats at all during rush hours.