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[crazyskier91]

Does anyone know the make of this lift, it is a Poma at CB but when did poma use that style?

Pic from coloradoskihistory.com

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[SkiBachelor]

I'm going to move this topic to the Ski Lift Images section if that's okay?

[crazyskier91]

Fine, I should have done that in the first place

[Kicking Horse]

i think that is the same terminal as k and l @ copper.

i think................................ i have not seen too many terminals's like that before.

[coskibum]

i think it was an early 80's design. this chair is newer than the ones at copper, but the designs are somewhat similar

[liftmech]

That lift is indeed the same as K and L. It is Poma's Delta terminal, an early North American design. There are also a couple down south near Colorado Springs; Brad may have pictures as they are located at a 'lost' ski area.
Has anyone else noticed that Poma likes to name their terminals after Greek letters?

[crazyskier91]

Another question to add to that but the east river lift at Crested Butte has the same chairs and return but It has a Alpha/Omega terminal. Whats up with that?

[floridaskier]

Maybe it was retrofitted

[crazyskier91]

My theory is that the east river lift was the old keystone lift. The years fit.

[Dr Frankenstein]

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It is Poma's Delta terminal, an early North American design.

There are many Deltas in France and England.

[crazyskier91]

Maybe they were built by both Poma of America and Pomagalski.

[liftmech]

I mentioned that because it was the first style of lift built in Grand Junction in '81. Any older Pomas I've seen have very different terminals, mostly enclosed types where the machinery is inside an A-frame building and the chairs actually enter and exit the A-frame.
Grant- does the East River lift have a fixed Alpha drive terminal, or is it a combined drive-and-tension? The fixed style was not common, but I have seen a few. The machinery on Delta lifts is basically the same as that on Alpha lifts; L-lift (Delta) has the same fixed return as A-1 (Alpha) and the line machinery is identical. East River could be a complete lift.

[crazyskier91]

It is the fixed alpha, except it was put in in 1997. Compare to Snowflake (1996) at breck, just an example.

[floridaskier]

What tension terminal do the fixed Alphas have?

[crazyskier91]

I think its a hydraulic system in the bottom terminal.

[liftmech]

Yup, it probably looks like this:

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[crazyskier91]

Yeah it did look like that. When was Resolution put in?

[liftmech]

1985. It has the more common Alpha combined drive-and-tension terminal at the top and a fixed return at the bottom.

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[coskibum]

pikes peak SA has this type of Poma terminal...

http://www.colorados.../pikespeak.html

[crazyskier91]

East River was put in in 1997 which makes me wonder...