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[coskibum]

I need some help to id the mfgr of this terminal. The lift, as I am sure many of you know, is the Timberline at WP. The line gear, towers and carriers are all Heron-Poma. From my records the drive terminal came from Ski Sugarite in Southern CO. Based on Cameron's research, the lift installed there was a Thiokol double chair. I guess my question is...is this a Thiokol terminal then?

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[Allan]

Not like any Thiokol terminal I've ever seen! They tend to look like this...

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[crazyskier91]

I thought that I read somewhere that that terminal was an in-house job when it was moved from Silver Creek.

[coskibum]

yes, but according to an article written i think in SAM by at WP employee, the drive terminal came from sugarite. their lift there was a thiokol?

[Kicking Horse]

It was a inhouse job. We have dicussed it here on this forum.

[crazyskier91]

Didn't the whole lift come from first, sugarite, then silver creek, then finally to winter park? With a lot of modifications along the way.

[Kicking Horse]

NO. It was installed @ Stage coach. Then Silver Creek, And then Winter Park.

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Timberline lift- was originally somewhere else on the hill (I didn't catch where) and was redesigned and rebuilt in-house in 1992. I think it may have been the old Olympia lift. Because it was an in-house project, they were able to modify the original Heron machinery to suit their needs. For instance, the top terminal sits on an exposed, windy ridge, so guidage was added. Second, the original Heron drive terminal was a vault, but there was no desire to dig a pit; the result was a new overhead drive motor room which sits on the old tension terminal, and the drive terminal was modified to be a return idler. Third (and this is minor, but I thought it was cool) the tower numbers were a shop project wherein one of the new guys practised his torch skills by cutting them out. The numbers are made in an old-school font that you might find on a saloon sign from 1883.

[liftmech]

After Silver Creek, didn't it go to Ski Sugarite though? It's also possible the terminal could have come from there as well. Perhaps nopainnojane knows.

[NoPainNoJane]

liftmech, on Aug 30 2005, 05:49 AM, said:

After Silver Creek, didn't it go to Ski Sugarite though? It's also possible the terminal could have come from there as well. Perhaps nopainnojane knows.
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timberline was installed way before my time at the resort, but I know that WP bought it from Silver Creek

[coskibum]

that's correct...the lift started out at the 'big hitch' lift at stagecoach in 1972. it was later removed in the late 1970's and reinstalled as the summit double chair at silver creek. the lift was then removed in the 80's and never replaced. it was located to the left (if facing the mtn) of the new leitner fixed quad there. it ran t2b.

according to a SAM article that TCS showed me at the ski museum, only the towers and chairs came from silvercreek/stagecoach. you can also verify this from the pictures on my site. the big hitch lift was a summit vault drive lift. the current timberline is a base drive/tension unit. that means that the lift could be 100% from sol vista/stagecoach.

I remember also in that article that they did not want to install a vault summit drive because of the environmental impacts. anyway, if i remember correctly it referenced sugarite as the supplier of the terminal.

just wondering if anyone knows anymore....