City Center Tram (Las Vegas, NV) : Elevated City Center tram passing over West Harmon Avenue with the Aria Resort in the background
- Creator:
- DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car, established 1996
- Published/Created:
- 3780 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
2006-2009 - Physical Description:
- 95 ft (length, train)
- Date Depicted:
- 2010
1950 AD - 2010 AD - Materials:
- electric cable
steel - Notes:
- An elevated tram, also known as an Automated People Mover (APM) connects Crystals with the Monte Carlo to the south and the Bellagio to the north. It uses the Cable Liner technology from DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car (based in Wolfurt, Austria), and has two independent rope-hauled (cable-propelled) parallel tracks and a four-car passenger unit operating on each track. It is 100% electric. The cable on each train is driven by two 460 kW AC motors. For on-board power supply, used for lighting, etc., the trains collect power from the 480 volt power rails running along side the tracks. Two 95-foot long trains will run simultaneously in opposite directions, with four cars per train, 33 passengers per car and 132 passengers per train. The tram travels at 13.5 miles per hour; the route takes 6.25 minutes roundtrip.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- United States -- 21st century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twenty-first century
- Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-BT-LVM-A2
- Genre:
- transportation
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Tools, Equipment & Instruments
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
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- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- business, commerce and trade; contemporary (1960 to present); engineering and industrial design; manufacturing; Transportation transit systems; public transit; rail transit systems; light rail transit; cable railroads
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Six
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2010 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4125
- OID:
- 10072984
- PID:
- digcoll:1818528