This T-Bar is one of two at Titcomb Mountain.The top terminal has a counterweight for tensioning.Unloading area at tower 8.View down the lift line with Ts removed for the summer.T8 and top operator shack.Middle part of the lift line.A unique portal tower. This entire lift may be custom built.Lower station building.Lift line.Lift overview.
This is a Poma brand T-bar which was relocated form the now closed Bald Mountain Ski Area in Rangeley. If you look at the portal tower, it looks like it was modified from a regular half tower.
I was actually mistaken, the towers came from a Poma that used previously operated where this T-bar does now, and the rest of the lift is the Hall-branded T-bar from Bald Mountain in Rangeley.
I agree, some of the sheaves definitely look like Constam ones with no liner. The drive also looks like Constam; the old T-Bar at Proctor, NH had the same model of drive as does the T-Bar at Ski Vorlage, QC except with tubular supports instead of I-beams. I wonder where it came from as none of Sugarloaf’s Constam T-Bars had been removed by 1969 (the year that newenglandskihistory.com says this lift was upgraded from the previous Poma.)
The T’s themselves and the return bullwheel are probably from Bald Mountain as they appear to be Hall. The return is quite unique-looking and it might be a custom design using old Hall parts from Bald Mountain. Just a guess.
Correction: Upper bullwheel might also be Constam as the still-standing T-Bar at the lost Tater Mountain, ME has the same design. I said it could be Hall earlier as the Mini T-Bar at Mt. Abram has a return bullwheel of similar design.
Good observation about the abandoned Vorlage T-Bar drive.
I imagine the original Proctor/Blackwater T-Bar was scrapped as it was very old (likely dating back to the 1940s or 50s) and had already been relocated to Proctor from an unknown area in Michigan as per newenglandskihistory.com. That site also mentions that some parts were reused on the T-Bar at Northeast Slopes, though I can’t identify any obviously Constam parts in photos of that lift.
It is on private, but unposted land. It might be a good idea to stop in to the house at the end of the road and ask permission. Here’s my trip report from visiting it in 2021.
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This is a Poma brand T-bar which was relocated form the now closed Bald Mountain Ski Area in Rangeley. If you look at the portal tower, it looks like it was modified from a regular half tower.
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It looks to me like some Constam parts were added at some point.
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I was actually mistaken, the towers came from a Poma that used previously operated where this T-bar does now, and the rest of the lift is the Hall-branded T-bar from Bald Mountain in Rangeley.
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Wow…those towers date from 1956, then. Titcomb is a 1950s T-bar (or Poma, in that case) museum!
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I agree, some of the sheaves definitely look like Constam ones with no liner. The drive also looks like Constam; the old T-Bar at Proctor, NH had the same model of drive as does the T-Bar at Ski Vorlage, QC except with tubular supports instead of I-beams. I wonder where it came from as none of Sugarloaf’s Constam T-Bars had been removed by 1969 (the year that newenglandskihistory.com says this lift was upgraded from the previous Poma.)
The T’s themselves and the return bullwheel are probably from Bald Mountain as they appear to be Hall. The return is quite unique-looking and it might be a custom design using old Hall parts from Bald Mountain. Just a guess.
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Correction: Upper bullwheel might also be Constam as the still-standing T-Bar at the lost Tater Mountain, ME has the same design. I said it could be Hall earlier as the Mini T-Bar at Mt. Abram has a return bullwheel of similar design.
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BB17, the derelict drive next to the active one at Vorlage has the I-beams.
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BB17, what happened to the old Proctor/Blackwater T-bar after it was removed?
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Good observation about the abandoned Vorlage T-Bar drive.
I imagine the original Proctor/Blackwater T-Bar was scrapped as it was very old (likely dating back to the 1940s or 50s) and had already been relocated to Proctor from an unknown area in Michigan as per newenglandskihistory.com. That site also mentions that some parts were reused on the T-Bar at Northeast Slopes, though I can’t identify any obviously Constam parts in photos of that lift.
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Speaking of old Constams, how long is the Tater Mountain T-bar? Who owns the land that it’s on? Do they allow visitors?
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It is on private, but unposted land. It might be a good idea to stop in to the house at the end of the road and ask permission. Here’s my trip report from visiting it in 2021.
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It won’t let me post the link for some reason, but search “Tater Mountain 9/28/2021,” and you’ll find it.
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