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[SkiBachelor]

I believe the Sunshine Village gondola was a Von Roll rather than Poma. I remember reading an aritcle about it in SAM from a 1992 issue.

[crazyskier91]

Does anyone have pis of the Sunshine lifts or gondola?

[SkiBachelor]

Here are a few that Eric took.

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[SkiBachelor]

More

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[SkiBachelor]

Continental Divide

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[SkiBachelor]

And one to show off a tower.

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[crazyskier91]

Awesome pics, are you adding sunshine soon, there are lots of pictures of that area in the forum? Do you have any pics on the angel express or the new lifts there?

[SkiBachelor]

No I don't, but I hope to have Sunshine Village on the site in the next few months. I will try to add Eric's pictures soon and then I will be up there to get some more pictures. :)

[Powdr]

floridaskier, on May 13 2004, 04:21 AM, said:

It would be interesting if PCMR put lattice towers on the new Town lift, whenever that would be (at least from the part you can see from the town) because the old mining tram had lattice towers that still stand next to the boring 80's CTEC tube towers.

Edit: I saved it as a JPEG, which really screws up the quality, and it's a little smaller than I would have planned. I don't really remember if the tower head design is right, or if CTEC builds depression sheaves attached to the terminal

Did you know that the old lattice towers still remain? I ride my Mt. Bike by them almost every day when I go up the Sweeney Switchbacks. What would be really cool is if the lower terminal was built to look like the old Coalition building that used to stand at the base of the Town Chair:



Powdr

[Allan]

Ryan B, on May 11 2004, 07:03 PM, said:

Yan tower fabrication info –
90% of all the tower stock came from Japan. 40' lengths were a common size. True with most lift manufactures even today.
Spiral seam more common on longer lengths, also true with most manufactures.
Only cap/cross arm shoe and ladder rungs added in field on line towers.
Only side plates and bullwheel frames added to terminal towers.
40' tower with assemblies weighs around 5500 lbs.
Maximum weight that a Bell 214 can pick is about 5501 lbs.

Ryan B

Here's the chopper that put our towers in...

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[floridaskier]

Powdr, on May 14 2004, 03:14 PM, said:

floridaskier, on May 13 2004, 04:21 AM, said:

It would be interesting if PCMR put lattice towers on the new Town lift, whenever that would be (at least from the part you can see from the town) because the old mining tram had lattice towers that still stand next to the boring 80's CTEC tube towers.

Did you know that the old lattice towers still remain? I ride my Mt. Bike by them almost every day when I go up the Sweeney Switchbacks. What would be really cool is if the lower terminal was built to look like the old Coalition building that used to stand at the base of the Town Chair:



Powdr

I don't know if a building like the old mining tram terminal would work there (it's a little big) but definetly a custom terminal would be great there, like the one on the Stella HSS at Schweitzer.

The old rusty mining tram towers are still there, running parallel to the new triple chair. They are almost all still there.
Outside the Marriott Summit Watch hotel in Park City,there is a replica of one of the towers in good shape. Those would be the type of towers used.