After offline cabins were damaged by vandals, new ones were ordered and kept hanging out of reach.Unique bottom terminal building.Portal tower 1.This has to be one of the newest gondolas out there with non-hydraulic tensioning and non-level boarding.The lift line. It’s short.Overview.CWA Omegas damaged beyond repair.
My friend went down to Moab and he rode this gondola and its up and running. Its not abandoned. Also the link from Utah to Moab senic tram takes you straight to this and not the spreadsheet.
There is one thing the lift has so much damage could they get it up and running in less than a few months I was in Moab in the spring and was not running. I think your friend was lying I will contact some locals down there and ask.
I went there last April and walked around it, and I’m kind of a ski lift nerd so I can tell how long its been since it last ran, but I can tell you this for sure, it only ran once, the day they tested it.
There is a group attempting to bring this lift back to life and really develop it, this is their website: https://www.moabtramproject.org/
I did some digging around their website and found the statistics they listed about the Moab Scenic Tram to be rather… eyebrow raising:
“The Tramway has a 200 horsepower DC motor, capable of running up to 1,700 RPM, and can run with a minimum of 60 hp. It can transport a maximum of 350 visitors per hour along 1,000 feet of cable, 450 feet in elevation at speeds up to 35 mph.”
35 mph is 15.6 m/s or 3080 fpm. There’s no way whatsoever that could possibly be true. Even the most advanced gondola I currently know of, the Giggijochbahn cable car in Austria, only runs at 6.5 m/s.
A 1700-rpm motor is pretty much standard, as is the 200-hp rated power (at least on a fixed-grip chairlift- we have a spare motor of that designation because we have at least five lifts that could use it in a pinch). 35 MPH, however….
From my understanding they were never allowed to operate because they disagreed about the reclamation bond. And so there it’s sat, rusting, for 20 years, never once used.
this never opened. It was supposed to be someting for tourists but legal issuues got it to never open the moab scenic skyway was open until it was tore down in 2005 because the land under it was bought.
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Do you know what side this lift goes up? Clock side or counter clock wise?
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CCW based upon the cabin door opening/closing assemblies.
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Does anyone now who the owner is
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William and Pamela Jewett of Nevada, John Dunning of Florida and a few other partners.
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Is it for sale?
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My friend went down to Moab and he rode this gondola and its up and running. Its not abandoned. Also the link from Utah to Moab senic tram takes you straight to this and not the spreadsheet.
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I go there every year and it has never been open he probably be thinking of another gondola because it never opened
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When?
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Any details? I find it unlikely that gondola reopened…errrr…ever opened.
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Same I doubt it ever opened
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All I can tell you that my friend who went camping in moab a took a ride on this lift. About 4 days ago. Im not sure if its really open or not
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In this age of social media, nobody goes camping without a camera or a smart cell phone. Where’s the pics ? 🙂
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he would have been hiking
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not possibe
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If you look at the rest of the comments he was full of horse huey.
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There is one thing the lift has so much damage could they get it up and running in less than a few months I was in Moab in the spring and was not running. I think your friend was lying I will contact some locals down there and ask.
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Me too. I was there 2 weeks ago and there was no signs of life, and our hotel was a two minute walk from it. I could actually see it from my room.
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I went there last April and walked around it, and I’m kind of a ski lift nerd so I can tell how long its been since it last ran, but I can tell you this for sure, it only ran once, the day they tested it.
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Sorry, not that recently, but still, it wasn’t running.
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He was lying :( sorry for making all of this fuss.
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There is a group attempting to bring this lift back to life and really develop it, this is their website: https://www.moabtramproject.org/
I did some digging around their website and found the statistics they listed about the Moab Scenic Tram to be rather… eyebrow raising:
“The Tramway has a 200 horsepower DC motor, capable of running up to 1,700 RPM, and can run with a minimum of 60 hp. It can transport a maximum of 350 visitors per hour along 1,000 feet of cable, 450 feet in elevation at speeds up to 35 mph.”
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35 mph is 15.6 m/s or 3080 fpm. There’s no way whatsoever that could possibly be true. Even the most advanced gondola I currently know of, the Giggijochbahn cable car in Austria, only runs at 6.5 m/s.
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A 1700-rpm motor is pretty much standard, as is the 200-hp rated power (at least on a fixed-grip chairlift- we have a spare motor of that designation because we have at least five lifts that could use it in a pinch). 35 MPH, however….
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I wonder if the “…at speeds up to 35 mph” is referring to how much wind the lift can operate in rather than the line speed.
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I would love to ask the owner if I can have one of the abandoned ones at the bottom and take it to my house
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From my understanding they were never allowed to operate because they disagreed about the reclamation bond. And so there it’s sat, rusting, for 20 years, never once used.
Moab tram and scam.
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this never opened. It was supposed to be someting for tourists but legal issuues got it to never open the moab scenic skyway was open until it was tore down in 2005 because the land under it was bought.
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Here are some of the photos I took of the top terminal way back in 2019
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It’s all been hacked apart (literally) and is piled in the parking lot at the bottom.
What a shame and a waste of a perfectly nice little gondola.
https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/Moab-Gondola/i-5jrVvTH/0/L6xV2z8VTcLCFVRwxQQXLCrd2gf6gFDnDbZ8C3n4j/M/Moab%201-M.jpg
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https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/Moab-Gondola/i-7q63Bn4/0/Kv3xBpQJx4r6R2MZjFm7Rf7SGvwm28jgPrBHwRFc4/M/Moab%203-M.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/Moab-Gondola/i-vvs5t3C/0/LK6w6szT4RRsqZrfFqX7Vk2n7R2sDjVDJmZFq9jdC/M/Moab%204-M.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/Moab-Gondola/i-qWb8sPT/0/LFcNtJzns2QgxfDZtcpGkqwWg7QHLwwwSPCCb3h7G/M/Moab%205-M.jpg
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It appears that the gondola moved a little after 2010 and before 2015 because in older pictures it shows the blue cabin near the top.
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