12 Comments

• matthias says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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
  • Steven Dale says:

    April 12, 2011 at 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.
• Nick Chu says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

  April 10, 2011 at 11:46 am

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

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

  April 10, 2011 at 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 says:

    April 12, 2011 at 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 says:

    April 12, 2011 at 8:17 am

    @ Sean,

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