joelkfla
DIS Veteran
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- Jun 13, 2001
An aerial tramway has either one or two large cabins permanently attached to the propulsion cable. The cable is stopped while the cabins are in the stations, and the cabins are loaded while stopped. After loading, the cable is started to move the cabins. If there are 2 cabins on the same cable, they are at opposite ends of the line when stopped, and pass each other midway.How do they differ? Just curious. An aerial tramway sounds like it would be larger?
Detachable gondolas are multiple smaller cabins on a constantly moving cable. When a cabin arrives at a station, it comes off the cable onto an overhead track, and usually continues to move thru the station at low speed propelled by rotating tires or a chain. After loading, the cabin proceeds to the end of the track and reattaches to the same or another cable. At a terminus station, the track is U-shaped, so the cabin reverses direction.