#Estes park aerial tramway tv
A 500-pound boulder flew several hundred feet down the mountainside, sheared off a tree, and felled it on the TV cable. On Thursday of last week, Cliff Fulton set off a big dynamite blast on the crest of Big Prospect to make way for the aerial tram tower being constructed there. Reception was bad over the weekend, but it was not until Monday evening that it went out completely, and owner Dick Statham of the Estes Park TV Company was able to discover the reason. Headline: Blasted Rock, Heavy Snow Knock Out TV Line Monday Nightīody: A combination of circumstances played hob with TV reception on the community line over the weekend and Monday night. Officers and directors of the tramway corporation are: Robert Heron, president Kenneth W. Heron believes that his company will have the tram in operation about July 1, barring difficulties unforeseen. With construction scheduled to begin about April 1, Mr. The vertical rise will be about 1,050 feet, and the view from the top will be a superb one of the Big Thompson Valley, as well as of the Continental Divide to the west, and the plains to the east. The hourly capacity will be 240 passengers. Two passenger cabins will be provided, each will have a 12-passenger capacity. The tram will be of the to-and-fro bi-cable type, with one span 2,560 feet long, well above the trees which cover the slopes of the mountain.
Heron has recently returned from a European trip where he inspected aerial tram equipment, and ordered a great many of the pieces of equipment which will be used here. The corporation has purchased land and leased land over which the project will be operated, and the construction road has been built from near Estes Park’s water filtration and chlorination plant to the top of Prospect. The cost of the tramway installation is estimated at $80,000, and of the facilities connected with it some $10,000. Headline: Works Starts Soon On Estes Park Aerial Tramīody: Work will start about the first of April on the aerial tram which goes from near the Crags to the brow of Prospect Mountain, it was learned this week from Bob Heron, head of his Denver engineering firm and co-developer of the project. The parking area, capable of handling about 50 cars, will be between the highway intersection and the road leading to the Crags. The line of the tram will follow, approximately, the present television cable line that goes up the side of Prospect Mountain.
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