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1. high speed six pack that has a Leitner breakover assembly (two towers and three towerheads), Leitner-Poma
2. Poma high speed quad that replaced a triple chairlift that replaced a double chairlift that underwent extensive destructive tests in 1990
3. Highest Chairlift in North America predecessor to the Imperial Express SuperChair and Loveland's Chair 9
4. defunct Poma high speed quad at The Canyons (where is it now)

2. Eskimo at Winter Park...

3. Norway at A-Basin

4. Steamboat

I wonder why you have chosen to call this a "Leitner breakover assembly"...
The first one I saw was in Sun Valley, ID in 1978... and it was a "Yan breakover assembly"...

Dino
This post has been edited by Lift Dinosaur: 19 November 2009 - 08:36 AM

[quote name='Lift Dinosaur' date='19 November 2009 - 09:35 AM' timestamp='1258648522' post='88595']
I wonder why you have chosen to call this a "Leitner breakover assembly"...
The first one I saw was in Sun Valley, ID in 1978... and it was a "Yan breakover assembly"...

Dino
[/quote]

You know, I never thought of checking out the idea of Yan using the design Leitner took to Europe.


I was considering the one here from the Christie Peak Express (pictures here by skierdude9450):

[img]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/skierdude9450/Christie%20Peak/C649.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/skierdude9450/Christie%20Peak/C657.jpg[/img]

I don't think any one manufacturer has a lock on this design being 'theirs'. I've seen a Doppelmayr service bulletin that also refers to this kind of towerhead.

I guess that's really not too uncommon. Poma had a setup like that on one of their gondolas in France in 1986.

From remontees-mecaniques.net:
[img]http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/cache/reportages/144/photos/IMG_0111.JPG[/img]