Mount Roberts Tramway
Mount Roberts Tramway is an aerial tramway in Juneau, Alaska, United States, which offers passengers of cruise ships and other tourist the opportunity to drive to the cliff above the quay located in about 500 m above sea level on a mountain ridge of Mount Roberts mountain station.
The valley station is at the south end of town directly on the quay for cruise ships. The cable car leaves from there in six minutes without supports to the mountain station, a high above the mountain ridge rising steel structure. There you can enjoy extensive views of the snow-capped Mount Roberts and the surrounding mountains and the Gastineau Channel and Juneau place. In addition to the mountain station there are various tourist facilities such as restaurants, a gift shop, a movie theater with films about the history of the place as well as exhibitions. The cable car is with 200,000 visitors a year, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Alaska. She is from May to September.
The aerial tramway was 1995/96, built and officially opened in May 1997 as a result of private initiative by Leitner Poma of America. It has a sloping length of 941 m ( 3087 ft) and a height difference of 532 m ( 1745 ft). With an average slope of 68 %, it is one of the steepest cable cars worldwide. The two cabins each hold 60 people and traveling at speeds of up to 10.2 m / s (36,7 km / h). The capacity is 1050 persons per hour. The 50 -meter-high steel structure of the mountain station was necessary to give the required distance above the ground to the web. It fulfills the same time the function of a cable car support. The cable car has ever track two track ropes 50 mm and a pull-wire with 35 mm diameter. Unlike the conventional construction with a traction cable and a separate counter- wire, both are fixed to the cabin, the mount Roberts Tramway has a single endless hauling cable spliced to which the cars are coupled clamped. This inspection of the complete traction rope without the clamped cabins is facilitated. The ropes were supplied by the company Fatzer AG, Roman horn. The suspension ropes are passed over the mountain station of time and are anchored behind her in the mountainside. The pull cable is tensioned by a hydraulic system anchored there. The support cables are firmly anchored at the base station without special clamping device, as is the case with some support -free investments.