Originally Posted by
Alloy
LTNman, I suspect the cable is a continuous loop and thus the two separate train units are not independent of each other? If so then if one breaks then they are surely both out of action? Dopplmeyer is, as I understand it, primarily a ski lift company. I suspect one ‘train’ is assisted on it’s ascent (terminal bound) up the hill by the gravity of the descending (Parkway station bound) cabled ‘train.’ This is a system that Dopplmeyer uses frequently with various funicular railways throughout the world, indeed I suspect many would call this DART project a funicular rather than a train?
I hear what you say but there is a proposal to add a station in the mid term car park. If the DART stopped to pick up passengers it would stop the other DART mid station.