The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is the largest rotating aerial tramway in the world. It was opened in September 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the Coachella Valley to near the top of San Jacinto Peak and was constructed in rugged Chino Canyon.[1]
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The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is featured in Holiday Hell.
The gondola swings in the air.
It was introduced in 1 week after people when it towers over the desert floor. The show gave information that in the time of humans, the tourist attraction stretched a mile across 5 steel towers from the desert floor to a mountain peak 8,500 feet above sea level. After people, the car sits empty 200 feet in the air, swinging in a breeze that overlooks the vacant resort city of Palm Springs.
Corrosion at the base.
Its fate is revealed in 120 years after people when one thing that would set up a catastrophic chain reaction from the giant steel towers that once supported the cable cars that ferried vacationers up 8,500 feet, a constant steady corrosion at the base of each tower where steel has held up for over a century. The problem begins with the cable itself. Travis Taylor stated that the track cables are almost 3 inches in diameter, its huge, and not just one piece but many pieces of wire wrapped around each other. The constant steady pressure of a hanging cable car and over a century of erosion on the tightly wound wires finally causes the cable to snap which cause the first of a cascade of catastrophes. The crashing gondola swings down into tower number 1 and the rust weakened tower can't withstand the impact which begins to collapse. Travis Taylor stated that it's liable to put too much torque o the next tower which would pull it over and put too much torque on the next tower then repeats in a domino effect. 5 towers that are connected by 2 miles of cable, pull each other down in a domino effect into the bedrock of the mountain and falls in an avalanche of rubble, dust, and the twisted metal.
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