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The Gondola Cabin Parking Facility at Keystone

When the Outpost gondola was built in 1991, Keystone decided to also build a underground cabin parking facility where the gondola cabins from both the Outpost and River Run gondolas could be parked and worked on in the same facility. Here is a tour of the underground cabin parking facility at Keystone Resort, Colorado. However, because both gondolas were built by different lift manufacturers, there had to be two seperate chair rails because both gondolas had different principle roller designs.

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Looking down into the cabin parking area from the Outpost gondola.

This is the rail that the cabins from the Outpost gondola (Doppelmayr) come down and go up from.

In this picture, you can see the food carts that are used to transport food from the Summit House station to the Outpost restaurant on the Outpost gondola. And on the left side of the picture, you can see the cabin bays where the gondola cabins are worked on. There is a grip maintenance bay, wash bay and paint bay. The person that you see in the picture is Eric, he was the nice lift mechanic that gave Skilifts.org the tour of the cabin parking facility.

In this picture, you are looking back at the spot where the picture above was taken. If you look to the left in the picture, next to the white electrical unit on the right, there is a handle. This handle is what you use to switch the chair rails above for the Outpost gondola.

The hydraulic handle levers that that you see on the left side on the cement wall with the black knobs on top are used to raise and lower the chair rails above (Vertical height adjustable). By raising the chair rails, it allows the lift operators and mechanics to move the gondola cabins easier in the cabin storage area.

This is where the cabins for the Outpost gondola are stored. The rails you see above are the ones that can be raised or lowered vertically to help move the cabins around.

Another picture showing an overview of the cabin storage area, with the gondola cabin bays on the right.

The controls that you see in this picture are for the River Run Gondola (Von Roll) and are used to open and close the chair rails into the different cabin bays.

Here we can see two of the River Run's gondola cabins being worked on in the grip maintenance bay.

Looking up where the grips are worked on.

Here is one of the River Run's grips being worked on in the grip maintenance bay.

Another Von Roll grip that is being worked on in the grip maintenance bay.

A picture of the Doppelmayr chair rail in the grip maintenance bay.

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Visit its website at: www.keystoneresort.com