Is there a reason the glass doesn’t go all the way to the bottom of the cabin on the winter park gondola? From what I remember most sigma cabins have full glass and I believe similar cabins at Killington and Stratton for example have the full glass.
Cost saving measure perhaps?? Or 10 person cabins need some kind of extra support?
Somewhat irrelevant, but I just found a brand new 10 passenger D-Line gondola on RM with combination assemblies on EVERY tower. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is? My best guess is wind tolerance but that seems like an awfully expensive solution, not to mention a pain to maintain.
my only guess is wind is a very big issue on that line and that was the solution that made the most sense. the line seems very exposed and adding combos to every tower would probably be cheaper than weighing each cabin and needing to make the drive more powerful. Anyone have a better guess?
The profile looks pretty neutral, which is usually when you see combo assemblies. I doubt it’s wind-related- if the wind was so strong as to move a large rope with big cabins it wouldn’t make sense to build there.
That’s the one with the Carvatech (I think) cabins, which oddly enough look like a floor to ceiling glass version of the late 90’s Gangloff cabins used at Whiteface and Tremblant.
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Is there a reason the glass doesn’t go all the way to the bottom of the cabin on the winter park gondola? From what I remember most sigma cabins have full glass and I believe similar cabins at Killington and Stratton for example have the full glass.
Cost saving measure perhaps?? Or 10 person cabins need some kind of extra support?
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I’m going to go with cost savings measure since they also skipped the ski rack on the cabins, Vail has 10 passenger cabins with full length glass
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Yes. Full length glazing is and “option” on the Diamond cabins…as are ski racks.
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Somewhat irrelevant, but I just found a brand new 10 passenger D-Line gondola on RM with combination assemblies on EVERY tower. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is? My best guess is wind tolerance but that seems like an awfully expensive solution, not to mention a pain to maintain.
https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tcd10-sonnberg-doppelmayr-6751.html
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my only guess is wind is a very big issue on that line and that was the solution that made the most sense. the line seems very exposed and adding combos to every tower would probably be cheaper than weighing each cabin and needing to make the drive more powerful. Anyone have a better guess?
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The profile looks pretty neutral, which is usually when you see combo assemblies. I doubt it’s wind-related- if the wind was so strong as to move a large rope with big cabins it wouldn’t make sense to build there.
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That’s the one with the Carvatech (I think) cabins, which oddly enough look like a floor to ceiling glass version of the late 90’s Gangloff cabins used at Whiteface and Tremblant.
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To me it looks like the line is turning slightly as it goes up, so maybe the combo sheaves make the line turn a bit like with supreme at Alta?
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