This short but steep T-Bar services the main slope at this private ski area.View up the line.Bottom terminal.This is the return station.Breakover towers.Tower 4.The unloading area.Top terminal.This station has the drive and tensioning systems.
Per a T-Bar aficionado on Snowjournal 2.0, this is actually a used Roebling T-Bar moved from an unnamed area in Michigan, with year also unidentified. The tower design, sheaves, and T-Bar hangers are all quite different from pics of existing Sneller T-Bars on this site and others. Also, the Sneller length stats seem way off. Maybe they doubled the length back then since that is about how long the haul rope is? Anyway, this may be the last Roebling T-Bar in operation.
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Per a T-Bar aficionado on Snowjournal 2.0, this is actually a used Roebling T-Bar moved from an unnamed area in Michigan, with year also unidentified. The tower design, sheaves, and T-Bar hangers are all quite different from pics of existing Sneller T-Bars on this site and others. Also, the Sneller length stats seem way off. Maybe they doubled the length back then since that is about how long the haul rope is? Anyway, this may be the last Roebling T-Bar in operation.
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Absolutely a Roebling. Compare the crossarms to those on the old Lower Tom T-Bar (https://newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=90) at its namesake Massachusetts mountain, and the now-derelict Skyride (http://www.chairlift.org/cherokee.html) in Cherokee, NC, and compare the top terminal’s counterweight pit to its counterparts on the Blue chair (https://liftblog.com/blue-mt-holiday-mi/) at Mt. Holiday, Michigan (not a Roebling but a St. Lawrence, with their characteristic Roebling line equipment. Their designs appear to be influenced by Roebling, like the return-tension terminal and towers), the Summit Double (https://newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=121) at Mt. Tom again (what happened to it?), the old Summit Double (http://www.chairlift.org/catamount.html) at Catamount (towers remain – but where’s the rest?), and the old Duckling Double (https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf2-duckling-roebling-5767.html – now at Skytrans in Contoocook, NH) and Province Double (not a Roebling but a Heron and Hopkins product with what appears to be, in the third picture, a Roebling-designed return – but where is it now?) at Mt. Sunapee, NH. Roebling itself lives on at the ever-resourceful Skytrans (http://skytrans-mfg.com/index.htm), which uses designs made by both John A. Roebling & Sons and its successor O. D. Hopkins & Company, often integrated with used parts (like the New York State Fair’s Broadway Skyliner (before as 1969 Bucksaw Double, Sugarloaf, ME: https://newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=374, after as 2017 Broadway Skyliner: https://liftblog.com/broadway-skyliner-new-york-state-fairgrounds-ny/) and many others.
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Sorry, forgot the rest of my name.
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