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?
I wrote this somewhere else also, but I’d love to see a gondola replacement. For the cost of a new tram, they may be able to do something flashy like a 3S…who knows until they get some quotes. I think the scenery & location are what sets Cannon apart from Loon/BW personally, not really the tram vs. gondola.
A gondola on this path with full-time operation would be a real game-changer for the skier experience…I’m drooling thinking of midweek, top-to-bottom laps.
I know that was the proposal – but has there been any confirmation of plans since the meeting? I haven’t seen anything. I know that they were planning to use ARPA money (Covid relief) – and after this was proposed, there have have been other ski projects trying to use ARPA money that ended up being questioned in the press and by pols…. NH is a republican state – so I could see it running into opposition there.
The original tram terminal buildings are the wood structures directly adjacent to the new terminal buildings in the photos. So when you are waiting in line, at the bottom, you are standing in the building where the old tram cars would come in.
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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’
Click to access CMAC-meeting-minutes-July-16,-2021-DRAFT.pdf
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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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I wrote this somewhere else also, but I’d love to see a gondola replacement. For the cost of a new tram, they may be able to do something flashy like a 3S…who knows until they get some quotes. I think the scenery & location are what sets Cannon apart from Loon/BW personally, not really the tram vs. gondola.
A gondola on this path with full-time operation would be a real game-changer for the skier experience…I’m drooling thinking of midweek, top-to-bottom laps.
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Keep the tram. It is part of what makes Cannon unique and the “Living Legend’ Bedbug NH
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Keeping the Tram would continue the 84 year Cannon tradition of “wonderful inefficiency,” something that the late SKI Magazine wrote.
I believe that the conclusion that the State came to was to fully replace the Tram II with a Doppelmayr-Garaventa machine.
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I know that was the proposal – but has there been any confirmation of plans since the meeting? I haven’t seen anything. I know that they were planning to use ARPA money (Covid relief) – and after this was proposed, there have have been other ski projects trying to use ARPA money that ended up being questioned in the press and by pols…. NH is a republican state – so I could see it running into opposition there.
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The original tram terminal buildings are the wood structures directly adjacent to the new terminal buildings in the photos. So when you are waiting in line, at the bottom, you are standing in the building where the old tram cars would come in.
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