This short but steep aerial tramway opened in 1970 to service a West Virginia State Park.Controls up top.This is one of only two reversible tramways built by Hall.The top terminal is integrated into a resort complex with offices, lodging and restaurants.Tower with 16 sheaves.Breakover towers seen from below.The first tower is a portal style.Counterweight and drive equipment at the same station.Counterweight made of concrete.View down towards the New River.Breakover towers leading up to the top terminal.Each side of the lift has two cabins with room for six passengers each.Tower 2 and all four cabins.Hall Skycruiser carriers.Towers 2 and 3.Loading area up top.Hall double fixed grip.Riding down into the gorge.The bottom terminal loading and unloading area.Lower station building.View up the line.Double carriers.Cabins passing the portal tower.Riding up.Nearing the summit.The final tower and top terminal, which is a simple return bullwheel.Cabin in the top station.
One of the vertical bullwheels had just a brake drum on it. The other one had a ring gear meshing with a pinion on a gearbox driven with a DC Motor. The variable speed drive was a Ward-Leonard style M-G set, no SCR’s.
The bullwheels were adapted from the Hall model 1200 T-bar, of which only four or five were made, the largest being 150 HP.
A cam-type programmer driven from one of the bullwheels made the operation semi-automatic.
The grips developed for this system back in 1968/9 eventually found their way into the Triple and Quad lifts built in years following. They were a scaled up version of the Hall double grip.
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How is this lift different than a pulse gondola? It is listed as a tram on the database.
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It’s a jig back, the cabins don’t go around any bullwheels.
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This is such a cool and classic lift!
Where was the other hall reversible tramway built?
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Waterway Hills Golf Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Unfortunately it closed in 2015 and the lift was removed.
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The Lift that was once at the Golf Club, Omega 2 6 seater cabins, when was this built?
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Any pictures?
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I actually found the gondola on google maps
https://earth.google.com/web/@33.78202786,-78.78826106,11.35492229a,0d,60y,284.34779043h,96.54381812t,0r/data=CgRCAggBIhoKFkVUVzg2RV9lN1U2cGE3azZ0OGIxNUEQAjoDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA
It looks like a hall 2000
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Are there any other lifts with Skycruiser cabins in operation?
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Why was this lift removed?
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I feel like this lift is a “pulse jig-back gondola” ;)
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One of the vertical bullwheels had just a brake drum on it. The other one had a ring gear meshing with a pinion on a gearbox driven with a DC Motor. The variable speed drive was a Ward-Leonard style M-G set, no SCR’s.
The bullwheels were adapted from the Hall model 1200 T-bar, of which only four or five were made, the largest being 150 HP.
A cam-type programmer driven from one of the bullwheels made the operation semi-automatic.
The grips developed for this system back in 1968/9 eventually found their way into the Triple and Quad lifts built in years following. They were a scaled up version of the Hall double grip.
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