twinplanx
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Anyone want to buy a gondola cabin? https://www.whiteface.com/mountain/retired-lifts
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Cabins #3, 5, 9, 10, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 31, 36, 38, 39, 41, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60
The minimum bid per cabin is $4,500 USD
Cabins # 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 46, 50, 51, 52, 58
The minimum bid per cabin is $500 USD
Why the 9x difference in minimum bids ?
That definitely struck me as odd too. That's a BIG difference! Maybe somebody mistakenly added another zero? I was hoping to find out when the Cloudsplitter was constructed. Hard to believe it has reached the end of it's lifespan...Why the 9x difference in minimum bids ?
That definitely struck me as odd too. That's a BIG difference! Maybe somebody mistakenly added another zero? I was hoping to find out when the Cloudsplitter was constructed. Hard to believe it has reached the end of it's lifespan...
I wonder if the expensive cabins have some sort of different paint job?
Whiteface post from Facebook:
Author
Whiteface The difference is the $4,500 cabins can go back up on a lift without any maintenance, the $500 cannot. They look the same.
It has to do with their use value. They expensive cabins can be reused by another ski area.
There's a ski area market for > 20 year old gondola cars?
I didn't know folks attempted to do gondys on the cheap. Seems kind of odd given the cars are way the lesser part of the CapEx as opposed to everything else that goes along with putting a gondola in.
There's a ski area market for > 20 year old gondola cars?
I didn't know folks attempted to do gondys on the cheap. Seems kind of odd given the cars are way the lesser part of the CapEx as opposed to everything else that goes along with putting a gondola in.
Look at Wildcat. They put in the HSQ, and bought gondola cabins, used, for summer use.
Where were the cabins from?
WILDCAT EXPRESS QUAD (DOPPELMAYR) - A1997 Doppelmayr detachable quad in the winter and a four passenger
gondola in the summer. While the quad was new to whiteface, the summer cabins were purchased used from Sulfer Mountain
in Banff Canada when that gondola was upgraded. This summer gondola and winter quad were installed to replace the original
Carlevaro-Savio gondola though it follows a line one trail over.
They would actually make a very cool "quiet room" for offices. If I could figure out how to ship one, I would consider it.