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[passengerpigeon]

Dear community,
After reading reports on two small abandoned ski areas in the central USA, I began to wonder who made the lifts in these areas. Devil's Nest in Nebraska has a double chairlift which looks like a Städeli, but I'm not too sure, and Rainbow Basin in Missouri has this centre-pole double with wooden slatted seats. Does anybody recognise the manufacturers of these lifts?

[reaperskier]

-Devil's Nest's lift is a Pullman-Berry.

-The center pole chairs on Rainbow Basin's lift screams Meuller. However, it has tube towers in place of lattice towers. So unless Meuller built lifts with tube towers, I don't think it is a Meuller at all.

[passengerpigeon]

reaperskier, on 16 September 2017 - 11:56 AM, said:

-Devil's Nest's lift is a Pullman-Berry.

Wow, I saw the resemblance too but thought it would be too unlikely. This must be the last intact lift of its kind, apart from the P-B tower poles reused by Yan at Sunday River. I recall somebody stating that no Pullman-Berries were still standing; is this lift relatively unknown in the community?

As for the second lift, while the hangers resemble Mueller ones, the seats are slatted differently. The chairs and towers do, however, resemble a now-lost image of a very early Doppelmayr lift I saw.

This post has been edited by passengerpigeon: 16 September 2017 - 06:06 PM

[sheave]

passengerpigeon, on 16 September 2017 - 04:45 PM, said:

Wow, I saw the resemblance too but thought it would be too unlikely. This must be the last intact lift of its kind, apart from the P-B tower poles reused by Yan at Sunday River. I recall somebody stating that no Pullman-Berries were still standing; is this lift relatively unknown in the community?

I tried to visit it last year but the whole area is currently being developed and the lift on private property. No one was available to get a permission to see the lift. I heard rumors that the lift is soon to be removed, but maybe that was just a false alarm: http://siouxcityjour...81c40a9acb.html

[skier691]

chairs look similar to a St Lawrence lift...if I'm thinking right. example: Mt Holiday, MI Blue Lift