Category:Cable Transport

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Cable Transport

• See also Cable trams

Cable car (Tram) Moving carriage consists of two cabins, propelled by cables.

1. Kitzsteinhorn system World’s first underground cable car rising on a steep incline from the village of Kaprun two and a half miles to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier that can transport 1,500 people an hour, built in 1974, renovated 1994.
   1. Kaprun fire Cable car caught fire 600 feet into the mountain, killing 170 people, 11 November 2000.

Cable Liner system Cable-drawn automated peoplemover that uses two trackways moving trains of two carriages capable of carrying 1,490 passengers per hour. Designed by Austrian company Doppelmayr, the first system operating in Las Vegas, Nev.

1. Birmingham Cable Liner system Built from Birmingham International Station and Birmingham International Airport, a 585-meter route with journey time of less than two minutes, on the former Birmingham maglev system, opened 2002.

Cableway Method of transporting loads by a system of overhead cables. It is widely used for bridge and dam construction.

1. Flying fox (AuE) Cable-operated transport over difficult terrain or water.

Enclosed lift Category of lifts that skiers ride in an enclosed cabin.

1. Aerial tramway (Aerial tram) Uphill passenger lift that uses two aerial cabin cars that move in opposite directions. US’s first aerial tram at Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire 1938.
2. Gondola Uphill passenger lift that transports several people in a series of enclosed aerial cars that are suspended from a moving cable.

Ski Lift

Detachable lift Category of lifts that skiers ride sitting on a chair suspended from a moving cable.

1. Chairlift Uphill transportation on chairs suspended from a moving cable. US’s first chair lift at Gunstock, New Hampshire 1937.
   1. Double (AmE) (BrE, = Two-seaters) Two skiers on each chair.
   2. Triples (AmE) (BrE, = Three-seaters) Three skiers on each chair.
   3. Quad (AmE) (BrE, = Four-seaters) Four people on each chair.

Express chair High-speed, detachable quad lift.

1. High-speed detachable quad (Superchairs) Four-person chairlift that moves people up the mountain quickly but during loading and unloading, the chair actually detaches from the cable and moves slowly.
2. Bubble chair High-speed detachable chair with a Plexiglass bubble to give riders protection from the weather.

Surface lift (AmE) (BrE, = Drag lift) Category of lifts that skiers ride while gliding on the snow.

1. Rope tow (Fixed grip lift) Continuous moving rope that skiers grab to be towed up slope. First used in US in Woodstock, Vermont, 1934.
2. Platterpull (Button lift; Disc lift; Platter lift) Skiers ride by being pulled with a small disk between their thighs.
   1. Pomalift Brand name that became virtually synonymous with platterpull.
3. Snow lift (Snow tow) Mechanism which tows a skier to the top of a slope.
   1. J-bar lift Lift that carries a series of bars shaped like the letter J on a moving overhead cable. One bar is allocated to each skier. First used in US by Dartmouth Outing Club on Oak Hill in Hanover, New Hampshire 1937.
   2. T-bar lift Intended to accommodate two skiers, a life in which a collection of bars, each shaped like an inverted T, is suspended from moving overhead cables. First used in US at Pico, Vermont 1940.

Magic carpet Slow-moving conveyor belt with non-slippery surface that skiers stand on, installed at snow level, used mainly on beginners slopes.

Lift capacity Number of people who can ride a lift if all seats are taken in an hour.