Construction of tramway to carry materials and men to transceiver atop South Franklin Mountain, near El Paso, Tex; tramway consists of two terminal structures and single intermediate tower carrying track cable from which carrier car is suspended; continuous haul cable, operating through reversible drive unit, moves car; vertical rise on system is 1640 ft and horizontal distance is almost 3000 ft; capacity of carrier is 1000 lb and operating speed is 300 fpm.


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    Title :

    Aerial tramway serves airway installation


    Additional title:

    Eng News-Rec


    Contributors:
    Dwyer, C.F. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1956


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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