Gondolas

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>>1092547
Love the colors here.

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>>1092547
Last one from Chongqing -- any pics of ones in Europe? I haven't run into any outside of ski resorts and such

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Nevis Range gondola in Scotland -- only mountain gondola in the UK -- with a cute bike rack

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>>1092547
Taipei's Maokong gondola

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this one was opened this year for the international garden exhibition in berlin

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>>1092547
what happens?

>>1092678
Good luck cutting an inherently pretty fat gondola carrying cable with bolt cutters.

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Akechidira ropeway looking back towards Nikko.

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>>1092626
Took longer than I thought

>>1092551

It's a shame those colors are a result of pollution. Those buildings are all so segmented, I don't see a bit of exterior cladding. This must be the mid 1980s or so.

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I live near this one :3
Portland, OR

>>1093640
Wow, that's cute! Somehow missed that when I've driven through Portland

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>>1092547
heres one from Venice

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A few in and around Barcelona. This one was modernized a few years ago.

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>>1095057
I still got to ride the old, red gondolas, which were open. I also remember the old amusement park, which is gone now.

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>>1095058
This glorious spanish technical achievement was inaugurated by the Caudillo himself in 1970.

Also this is the newsreel talking about it http://www.rtve.es/filmoteca/no-do/not-1435/1486607/

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Then we have this baby. Built in 1931, and has never been upgraded.
It was actually conceived as a regular public transport, and for a few years it functioned as such: There were four cabins, two running on one half, two on the other, that is to do the whole trip you had to change cabins at the middle station.
It was damaged during the civil war (1936-39). IIRC one cabin was lost, one was taken to another gondola outside the city which was of the same system and also had one cabin damaged, and the other two were eventually restored when this gondola was reopened in the 60's. By then the two stretches were unified into one with a middle station. The middle station was closed a few years ago.

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>>1095060
Anuddah pic

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This gondola is the "sister" gondola to this (>>1095060) one, it was built about the same time in 1931, and runs up the Montserrat mountain, a popular tourist destination about an hour-hour and a half from Barcelona away.

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>>1095062
Check out this awesome stone mast.

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>>1095063
Notice how it's the same type of cabin as the other one.

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Lastly, this one's a bit of a sad story. It was built as a feeder to a train station, reaching up to a rather important satellite city which lacks any train connection. However, it was awfully designed, with the station on the far side of this city, so it was never very useful and closed down after just a few years of operation. It was the first public transit gondola ever in Spain.

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>>1095065
The basic structure has been mothballed, basic maintenance is done so to be able to eventually reopen it, but that seems unlikely.
Last week there was some news that they're taking out I think the cable and cabins, to upgrade another aging gondola.

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Finally the one I just mentioned that's getting upgraded. It's part of a tiny skiing area in the Pyreneese mountains called Vall de Nuria. This place is reached by a rack railway, and the gondola runs up to a youth hostel and cafeteria. It's a pretty nice place for a lazy-style excursion into the mountains, since you can get up there without actually skiing or walking or any other kind of exercise. Now that's my kind of excursion!

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>>1095067
This gondola replaced an old funicular

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>>1095069
I wonder what they'll do about capacity if they use those other cabins. Right now it's run as a pulse gondola with four and four cabins, each with capacity for six people. If they use the other cabins it'll just be two cabins with capacity for 15 people each. But then again maybe they'll run it a bit faster, right now it takes ages to enter the station which for some reason it does at a reaaaaally slow pace.

Well that's all I've got, cheerio lads.

>>1095070
Thanks for reviving the thread, lots of great pictures!
>>1095062
This one is a clear favorite in the thread so far.