- Eaglecrest needs $1.86 million in additional parts for its used pulse gondola, which has already cost $3.1 million before construction.
- 2023 was “by far the most successful year” in North America for the Doppelmayr Group.
- An upcoming Garaventa tram in Europe will feature robotic cargo loading.
- Mechanics at the Portland Tram vote not to unionize.
- Unionized lift mechanics at Park City reach a two year contract with Vail Resorts.
- Gore Mountain issues an RFP to replace Northwoods Gondola cabins in 2024.
- Doppelmayr wins a contract for a 189 cabin urban gondola in Bogotá, Colombia and begins construction on a 122 cabin urban gondola in Santiago, Chile.
- A viral video shows a chairlift in China bouncing wildly due to a malfunction.
- Heavy rains close Sunday River for 5 days and knock the Chondola out of service.
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lol re the Chinese chairlift malfunctioning due to “low temperatures” according to resort management. Serves them right for snow skiing in the winter. I was in China several years ago and whenever I asked the tour guide about the suffocating smog they said it was just a “foggy day.”
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Exactly, you basically summed up the morally bankrupt CCP leadership and modern Chinese life in one comment. Serves them right for blatantly stealing and copying Doppelmayr and Leitner-Poma intellectual property and still managing to create a chairlift that wouldn’t pass Western safety standards with the chairs bouncing around more dramatically than my model Jagerndorfer chairlift when it fell off my desk.
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I was wondering if that chairlift is a doppelmayr counterfeit.
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Is there an issue with the CWA OMEGA 3 gondola cabins that require replacements? Canyons, Killington and now this? I mean, the original CWA cabins on Excalibur at Blackcomb are still going strong.
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Note that the Linkedin post says this is the second Tram fitted with the robotic loading system, after the Eigerexpress in Grindelwald.
CWA Omega 3 are still going strong in Europe..
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First tram as the Eigerexpress is a 3S gondola.
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Really stumped by Eaglecrest’s decisionmaking. They probably could have have had SkyTrac build them a brand-new pulse gondola for less than this old Austrian beast will end up costing them.
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Way to bounce back Sunday River!!! Props to all the crews there
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