Iron Mountain Tramway – Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, CO
Top bullwheel with building built over it.CWA Omega six-passenger cabins.Poma Alpha bottom station with drive and hydraulic tensioning.Arriving at the top.Riding down the line.Poma pulse grip and hanger.Descending into Glenwood Springs.The load platform moves along a carriage with the motor room and bullwheel at the bottom station.Another view of the drive terminal.Two pulses of three cabins each.View down from the summit.
And now I can officially announce why we are doing that. (It finally became public knowledge today.) We will be converting Iron Mountain Tramway into a full fledged detachable lift. I’m happy to share what details I can if you would like, just let me know what info you need. :)
For the right price. ;) Kidding aside, right now the future of the current terminals, haul rope, and cabins is under wraps at this time. I’ll give you more details when I can.
Very little of it actually, just the terminals and the cabins with the grips/hangers. I believe they ended up getting a new haul rope. The original was starting to get old it was needing replacement soon.
The new lift uses almost all the same towers and heads. The heads and sheave assemblies were refurbished by Poma and put back on. You can clearly see in photos the older lifting points and Poma passes which I don’t thinking any newer gondola installation has. (Catwalks are the default appears.)
It had 18 towers just like the new one. You just don’t see tower 18 labeled as 18 on the new one since there is 1 and 1A at the bottom. (Avoided relabeling the whole line this way.) The new 17 is slightly uphill of the old 17 and 18 wasn’t needed for the new terminals.
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What is with the pipes near the comline?
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1. Water
2. Gray water
3. Natural gas
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Correct. Side note, we will be taking them off later this year and putting them in the ground. The grey water line is no longer in use as well.
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And now I can officially announce why we are doing that. (It finally became public knowledge today.) We will be converting Iron Mountain Tramway into a full fledged detachable lift. I’m happy to share what details I can if you would like, just let me know what info you need. :)
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Is there any way you could get a gondola cabin
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For the right price. ;) Kidding aside, right now the future of the current terminals, haul rope, and cabins is under wraps at this time. I’ll give you more details when I can.
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Most of the lift is now the Grafton SkyTour in Grafton, IL.
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Very little of it actually, just the terminals and the cabins with the grips/hangers. I believe they ended up getting a new haul rope. The original was starting to get old it was needing replacement soon.
The new lift uses almost all the same towers and heads. The heads and sheave assemblies were refurbished by Poma and put back on. You can clearly see in photos the older lifting points and Poma passes which I don’t thinking any newer gondola installation has. (Catwalks are the default appears.)
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The new one has 17 towers how much did this one have?
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It had 18 towers just like the new one. You just don’t see tower 18 labeled as 18 on the new one since there is 1 and 1A at the bottom. (Avoided relabeling the whole line this way.) The new 17 is slightly uphill of the old 17 and 18 wasn’t needed for the new terminals.
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