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matthias

April 10, 2011 – 5:19 am

First Installation was Schmerikon, Switzerland. Its spelled wrong on the Aerobus website and i wrote them an email years ago. The test track in Schmerikon crossed the lake and as a remarkable feature it had a floating pylon. Dortmund and Düsseldorf so have suspended type monorail (H-Bahn or Siemens SIPEM) Another Aerobus installation operated in Mt. St. Anne, Canda for 30 years
Sean Turvey

April 10, 2011 – 8:23 am

@ Matthias Do you mean Mont-Sainte-Anne, Beaupré, Quebec, Canada? I used to ski there in the '80s. Do you have any info on the installation? When was it there? That would have been something to see!
ant6n

April 10, 2011 – 10:41 am

Looks kinda cool. Combines fixed guide and cable transit by using rails in tight curves, switches and stations, and cheaper cable on everything else. Looks a bit more complex and expensive than traditional gondolas, though. And seems to allow only one vehicle between two pylons in general.
matthias

April 10, 2011 – 11:13 am

It was Ste. Anne, Quebec, Canada / 1975 ~ 1992 I don't know wheter there are other towns with the same name. According to what i could find out it was used as the feeder for a ski resort. The first two pictures are from St.Anne http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/aerob2.htm As you can see are the stations smaller than the ones for gondolas or aerial tramways. And single track is possible for routes with not that much traffic.
LX

April 10, 2011 – 11:39 am

Hmm, I'm wondering if the forum is really needed? But what I sort of always missed is the opportunity to integrate small pictures here in the comment-section. Steven, is it possible to integrate that feature? Seems like Caracas always has been a bit more progressive than other cities, huh? http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2464/nuevoidealnacional.jpg
Nick Chu

April 10, 2011 – 11:44 am

@matthias Thanks for the correction. I searched for the city on google and couldn't find it and was getting a little more skeptical whether the system was really built. Floating pylon eh, interesting feature? Do you know anything more about that?
LX

April 10, 2011 – 11:46 am

Lots of great photos of the Aerobus installation in Mannheim: http://picasaweb.google.com/jhm0284/AerobusMannheimBundesgartenschau1975#
Sean Turvey

April 10, 2011 – 12:54 pm

@ Matthias From the link, it is one and the same. Weird that I don't remember it. I would have been fascinated by it.
Sean Turvey

April 10, 2011 – 1:05 pm

@ LX Steven mentioned to me in January that he was working on a redesign which he hoped to be complete by the end of last month. From recent posts, it looks like he has been quite busy. I suggested that he try Livefyre (http://bit.ly/etncfo) for the comments and he said that he had been unsuccessfully looking for a replacement.
Steven Dale

April 12, 2011 – 8:14 am

@ LX, I'd really like to get the forums open. We often have a lot of discussion that should probably find it's way there. Particularly when things become very technical and engineering-heavy, I find it alienates some of the less tech-savvy readers.
Steven Dale

April 12, 2011 – 8:17 am

@ Sean, Yup. Delays, delays, delays. I think when I say something like that I should just add an additional 3 months to it ;).
Steven Dale

April 12, 2011 – 8:17 am

@ Sean, See, this is exactly the sort of discussion we should be having in the forums.

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