Palm Springs, CA - The Palm Springs Ndege Tramway, yomangidwa mu mapiri a Chino Canyon kumpoto chakumpoto kwa Palm Springs, sizinachitike chabe. Zinkafunika kuwoneratu zamtsogolo, kukonzekera, kupeza ndalama, komanso koposa zonse, masomphenya.
Monga mnyamata injiniya magetsi, maloto Francis Crocker anayamba mu 1935 pamene anali pa ulendo Kutsekedwa, California, ndi nyuzipepala wofalitsa Carl Barkow. Kukolopa zikope zake kutentha kwa tsiku, Crocker anayang'anitsitsa pa akadali chofewa chili pamwamba nsonga ya phiri la San Jacinto 10,834 mapazi okwera ndipo ndinkafuna "kupita uko pamene izo ziri zabwino ndi ozizira". Pa nthawi imeneyi, "Kupusa Crocker," monga posakhalitsa ikutchedwa ndi mkazi wina nyuzipepala, anabadwa - ndi tramway mmwamba ovuta Poti Chino Canyon.
Kumulemba thandizo la chipululu upainiya ndi co-manenjala wa wotchuka Palm Springs chipululu Ogona, O. Earl Coffman, maloto Crocker anakhala dongosolo.
Ngakhale kuti chidwi chawo pa tramway lingaliro mkulu kwanuko, misewu ndale anachititsa ambiri amasowa zokhumudwitsa. Kawiri, ndi tramway kuwapangitsa bilu anapambana California State malamulo, kokha vetoed mwa ndiye Kazembe Culvert Olson. Ndi mliri wa Nkhondo Yachiwiri Yapadziko Lonse, madongosolo anali kulephereka.
Komabe, masomphenya Crocker wa tramway ndi onga ovuta anthu cha kuzizira wa San Jacinto Mountains sanawafere konse. Patatha zaka mapulani mipukutu shelved, iwo dusted kutali ndi nkhondo inayambika mwatsopano.
Mu 1945, latsopano sitima bilu chinaperekedwa ndi Bwanamkubwa Earl Warren anasaina muyeso kulenga Phiri San Jacinto Zima Park Authority. Coffman, amene adakangalika mwakhama kuona masomphenya anazindikira, dzina lake wapampando woyamba Authority ndi Crocker dzina lake mlembi woyamba.
Ndi 1950, amaphunzitsidwa anali patsogolo pa maselo tramway a, ndalama zoposa $ 250,000 kuthetsa mikuluwiko ya msewu ndi nsanja yomanga. Ndalama kwa pomanga Tramway anafunsidwa kugulitsa $ miliyoni 8.15 m'ndende ndalama payekha. Culver Nichols, amene anapereka dziko kwa Station Valley ndi oimika magalimoto, anathandiza kutambasula ndalama anakweza. Senti imodzi ndalama za boma ankagwiritsa ntchito kapena kumanga kapena kugwira ntchito kwa Tramway. The 35 wazaka nsinga anali bwinobwino linapindula mu 1996.
Nkhondo ku Korea anali kupangitsa kuchedwa wina, koma ntchito wofuna anayamba fomu July 1961.
Yomanga Tramway anali zomangamanga vuto ndipo posakhalitsa zaikidwa ndi "Eighth Zodabwitsa za World." The chapamwamba anali movutikira chifukwa cha ntchito mwaluso Helicopters mu akuika anayi a nsanja asanu akuthandiza. Twente zaka mtsogolo, Tramway zinaperekedwa ndi mbiri zomangamanga chikhomo.
Nsanja woyamba ndi yekhayo amene akhoza anafika mwa msewu. The Helicopters anaulukira utumwi ena 23,000 miyezi 26 ya zomangamanga, kulowetsa anthu ndiponso zipangizo zofunika kuti amange nsanja ena anayi ndi 35,000 sq. Ft. Mountain Station.
maloto Francis Crocker a linamalizidwa mu 1963; ndi wofika ulendo zinachitika pa September 12th wa chaka kuti ndi olemekezeka m'dera ndi boma, ndi otchuka pa dzanja.
Crocker ankabwera Tramway kambirimbiri komanso kwa apaulendo anzathu zambiri adzalandira ofotokozera kwa iye pamene iwo ankabwera kwa "kumene izo zinali zabwino ndi ozizira." Francis Crocker anafa 1992.
Mu 1998, ndi Tramway analengeza kuti anali poyamba pa wofuna wamakono pulogalamu kuti adzaone yomanga ndi unsembe wa magalimoto atsopano komanso pomwe wa malowo. Kuyambira mu September 2000 Anthu woyamba anakwera padziko lonse lapansi onsewo tramcars.
Kuyambira 1963, anthu oposa 20 adayenda ulendo wa 10, ulendo wa makilomita a 2.5, womwe umayamba ku Valley Station (kukwera kwa 2,643 mapazi) ndipo umatha pa Mountain Station (kukwera kwa 8,516 mapazi).
Mu 2019, Tramway's Mountain Station inayamba kukonzanso koyamba, komwe kunamalizidwa koyambirira kwa 2023. Bajeti ya $ 13 miliyoni, khama limeneli silinangoyenera kubweretsa magetsi, mapaipi ndi ma HVAC mpaka pano, koma kubwezeretsanso zomangamanga zoyambirira. masomphenya a womanga wake wotchuka wa Mid-Century, Stewart Williams.
Mu Seputembala wa 2023, Tramway idakondwerera 60 yaketh tsiku lachikumbutso.
