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[liftmech]

Whistler, on Jan 17 2004, 06:56 PM, said:

Just an interesting fact here, The New Whistler Creekside Gondola (which replaces the ill-fated Quicksilver) uses a fair amount of the old Yan Towers, just with new Poma Heads. You can tell this because of the ladder on the tower, (which is drastically different than the ones Poma uses, and at the area where the tower joins the head, the Yan "V" shape is present. Most of these Yan Towers are mid-way up the line. I'll get some pics next weekend and post the two towers (the poma ones, and the Yan ones, for comparrison). It's kind of neat to know that the Quicksilver still has a slight existance on Whistler Mountain.

The Big Red uses all but one of the old Redline's towers. I'm not sure if the Emerald uses the old Green Chair's, but I'm almost positive it does. Doppelmayr just put their own sheave assemblies onto Yan's towerheads. R and S lifts @ Copper were rebuilt the same way.

[vancouverguy]

Yep, the Emerald does indeed use the old Yan towers.

[KZ]

cool stuff there

[Whistler]

I think everyone knows abouth the Big Red/Emerald using Yan towers, but I had no idea about creekside. And that old Yan counterweight, it has to be one of two chairs: Fitzimmons or the beginner Yan Double. It does look like it's been there for a while though. I'll get pics up here soon.