- Snowbasin will test solar-powered USB charging bars in five of its gondola cabins in partnership with Goal Zero.
- Mt. Waterman in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Mountains reopens this weekend with 3 Riblet doubles operating for the first time in five years. The mountain will honor all tickets and passes sold since 2011!
- Two years after his 6-year old daughter fell from a chair, a New Jersey man sues Campgaw Mountain and the town/county it’s located in for “careless and reckless” operation of a ski lift.
- Sugarloaf just can’t catch a break. A power failure shut down most of its lifts for hours on their first Saturday with snow.
- Did you know Doppelmayr operates a zoo with more than 400 animals at its headquarters in Wolfurt?
- Speaking of Doppelmayr, their interactive installation map now displays 24 world record-breaking ropeways (click the red button on the bottom left.)
- Somebody had to do it. Spirit Mountain, Minnesota becomes the first to offer lift-served, downhill fat biking starting Sunday.
- Whistler Village Gondola cabin #84 returns to its roots in the Alps as The Coffee Gondola.
- What appears to be a Doppelmayr quad chair rolls back in China, screaming ensues.
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where can i get one of those working model chairlifts?
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http://jaegerndorfer-usa.com/
Check under “where to buy”
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Also check http://www.seilbahnshop.com/
There are different sizes. 1:32 scale seems to be the standard for sets imported to the USA. The smaller 1:87 version looks more realistic to me. The video above shows a model much larger than either of those that I’m guessing Doppelmayr had custom built for them.
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Very good point. I own the 1:32 scale set and the towers especially aren’t as realistic. I believe this larger model is made by http://arnoldseilbahnen.de/
Sorry for the dumb username (uptonsillybean) this is an old account
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I would be looking for one with working grips. Doesnt look like the first link has that
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Those models are cool but working on the real thing is better
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