SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Lift Specialists Gather At Steamboat Symposium
The Fifth OITAF/NACS Symposium, August 30 to September 2, at Steamboat, Colo., was widely viewed as one of the most successful ever held, with…
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Top Or Bottom Drive
Understanding the physical differences between installing a top drive versus a bottom drive of a lift helps in evaluating the actual cost differences and…
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Highlights Of A Skimpy Expansion Year
The construction index for North American ski areas has not exactly been at a fever pitch this offseason. Lift construction did receive a slight…
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Designing And Analyzing Lift Parts For Metal Fatigue
President, Pol-X West, Inc. Fatigue failure analysis combines engineering and science: science is attempting to tell us why the fatigue failures happen, while engineering…
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Whistler’s Quads and Bubbles
Whistler Mountain, B.C., effected a major overhaul of its lift system this year, replacing an old four-passenger gondola and three double chairs with two…
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Lifts 1991
Well, we knew it was coming, and it did. We have hit new lows for new lift construction in North America with a total…
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Standard Changes That Might Be Overlooked
After the ANSI B77.1 was approved in March of 1990, state agencies and other entities had one year to put it into effect. That…
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Constructive Destruction
Destroying a working chairlift could be considered an affront to modern tramway technology. Old chairlifts never die, but are usually rebuilt at another location.…
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99 Rooms With A View
Overlooking the St. Lawrence River and historic Quebec City, the new 8-passenger gondola at Mont Ste. Anne has been described as “99 rooms with…
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Lifts 1989
Well, let’s face it, 1989 did not set records in lift construction in North America. Having said that, the flip side must also be…