Bottom terminal building with motor room below.View up the line from the base.Top dock and terminal building.Yellow tram car with the White Mountains in the background.Yellow tram car passes tower 2.Top terminal building.Top platform with car 2 docked.Car 2 leaving the summit.Tower 1.Top terminal track rope bollards.
From a skier’s perspective, if they are talking about replacement, a gondola would be a better choice to move more skiers. As it is, they only run the Tram Friday through Monday (at least pre-Covid) – and they close it by mid-March, even though the skiing goes unitl mid-April. Presumably due to the cost of running it. But from a tourism perspective the Tram has a special attraction and separates it from the two mountains nearby that already have sightseeing gondola rides (Loon and Bretton Woods). I don’t imagine that a newer Tram would be significantly less costly to operate, that they might keep it open in the winter more often?
You spelled “Top” wrong on the top dock picture.
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Thanks.
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From a skier’s perspective, if they are talking about replacement, a gondola would be a better choice to move more skiers. As it is, they only run the Tram Friday through Monday (at least pre-Covid) – and they close it by mid-March, even though the skiing goes unitl mid-April. Presumably due to the cost of running it. But from a tourism perspective the Tram has a special attraction and separates it from the two mountains nearby that already have sightseeing gondola rides (Loon and Bretton Woods). I don’t imagine that a newer Tram would be significantly less costly to operate, that they might keep it open in the winter more often?
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Cannon also states that the project would close the Tram for three operating seasons – ‘Summer/winter/summer’
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There is also suggestion that replacing with a gondola, is an option that is on the table as well: https://www.conwaydailysun.com/berlin_sun/news/local/aerial-tramway-could-be-replaced-by-gondolas/article_aeea7372-ea3a-11eb-beb6-17903f01a970.html#tncms-source=login
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