The 2015 Doppelmayr Worldbook is out! It’s 150 pages of statistics and pictures of the 83 lifts Doppelmayr and Garaventa built last year. The book comes out every spring and the last seven of them are available online.
Some of the projects I found interesting:
- Universal Studios’ Hogwarts Express, a modern funicular designed to look like a train from Harry Potter.
- Oakland’s airport connector which is the first Doppelmayr CableLiner Shuttle to have multiple haul ropes and detachable cars. $484 million buys a pretty cool train.
- Three gondolas in China including one to the Great Wall with heated seats.
- The world’s longest chondola at Beaver Creek (
also the first with 10 passenger cabins.) - World’s tallest 3S gondola in Ischgl, Austria.
- A two-section system in Greece which runs as a gondola at the bottom and chondola at the top with every 4th cabin making the entire trip.
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Thank you for the update and observations! However, the Beaver Creek Chondola is hardly the first lift of its kind to feature 10 person cabins. Take this lift on Remontees-Mecaniques which features 10 passenger cabins and eight passenger chairs: http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-4670.html
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You’re right. It is the first to have 10-passenger cabins and 6-passenger chairs.
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Not to be super picky, but while it might be the first Doppelmayr chondola of its kind, there is a R-M report on a 2013 Poma chondola with this setup: http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-5394.html
For the rest of the 25 R-M reports on “combined ropeways,” click here: http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/liste-5-type-41.html
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