This D-Line gondola replaced an older four person gondola in a similar triangle alignment.Visitors load at the bottom station and travel up to tasting rooms and a gift shop with an intermediate station along the way.Tower 3.The first two towers at the drive station.All three stations are angled with cabins travelling one way.Tower 9, the tallest on the entire lift on the downhill portion of the line.Tower 11.Overview of the base station with small maintenance area.Tower 10.The loading area.An Omega V cabin in the bottom station.View departing the lower terminal.Bottom station seen from above.Towers 1, 2, 3 and 11 near the lower terminus.View riding up the first segment of the line.Nearing the first angle station and tower 5.View back down the lift line.Short middle section between the two non-drive stations.This station has no loading, unloading or operator.Short tower 6.View arriving at the wine tasting station.Doppelmayr Connect controls.Each station is wheelchair accessible, unlike the old gondola.Side view of a tower and Omega IV cabin.View along the ridge top.Another view of the unmanned station.Hilltop station with half towers.View of the gondola from the vineyard’s terrace.Upper station overview.Doppelmayr detachable equipment.Side view of a short D-Line station.Tower 7.Eight passenger cabin.Another view of the third station.Loading area at the summit.Doppelmayr USA operates and maintains the gondola on behalf of the vineyard.A cabin in the station.View leaving the ridge.Half station.Tower 8.Tower 9.View of the vineyard estate from the gondola.Arriving back at the base.Cabins traveling one way down the line.The lower station and towers.Another view of the drive station.Cabins traveling along two different segments.Unmanned terminal seen from the valley.
That gondola has 5 fixed stations and the loading/unloading station is the more cursed than this, It has a Agamatic mid station where the cabins move and the haul rope is deflected in to a Uni-g drive tension station.
Why did they not just make it in a straight alignment from the current bottom terminal to the wine tasting area? That seems like it would have been cheaper.
That probably would’ve required trees to be removed. Since the old alignment of the gondola was there, they just had it follow that instead. Plus, it’s so much cooler this way!
I think it is a sightseeing thing. The view appears to be much better on the side with the angle station. You overlook their winery, and they want you to buy their wines. Just doing the short portion from the hill top to the bottom, most of the winery is blocked by the hillside. (or at least that is what I could gather from Google Maps)
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Wow, this has got to be one of the most beautiful lifts on Liftblog. Those modified D-Line terminals are a work of art
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Any idea of the tensioning system on this? I’m thinking of the wacky vertical tensioning on the triangular gondola at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
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I love the custom design
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This looks both cursed and amazing at the same time. More so the former. Congratulations, Doppelmayr!
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If you think this is cursed, wait ’till you see this one:
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The weirdest part is, it crosses over and under itself like, 5 times
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https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tcd8-safarigondel-doppelmayr-4349.html
That gondola has 5 fixed stations and the loading/unloading station is the more cursed than this, It has a Agamatic mid station where the cabins move and the haul rope is deflected in to a Uni-g drive tension station.
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check this one out!
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How does the Tension system work?
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I have never seen such a tiny midstation that turns so many times!!
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Why did they not just make it in a straight alignment from the current bottom terminal to the wine tasting area? That seems like it would have been cheaper.
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That probably would’ve required trees to be removed. Since the old alignment of the gondola was there, they just had it follow that instead. Plus, it’s so much cooler this way!
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I think it is a sightseeing thing. The view appears to be much better on the side with the angle station. You overlook their winery, and they want you to buy their wines. Just doing the short portion from the hill top to the bottom, most of the winery is blocked by the hillside. (or at least that is what I could gather from Google Maps)
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