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Time-lapse video of a trip on the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit line. Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (WVU PRT) is a personal rapid transit (PRT) system in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. The system connects the three Morgantown campuses of West Virginia University (WVU) and the city's downtown area.
West Virginia. The Hawks Nest State Park aerial tram, in Fayette County, West Virginia, carries park visitors from the rim of the New River Gorge to the bank of the New River, a descent of more than 800 feet (240 m). The aerial tram at Pipestem Resort State Park in Pipestem, West Virginia descends 3,600 feet (1,100 m) into the Bluestone River ...
An aerial tramway consists of one or two fixed cables (called track cables), one loop of cable (called a haulage rope), and one or two passenger or cargo cabins.The fixed cables provide support for the cabins while the haulage rope, by means of a grip, is solidly connected to the truck (the wheel set that rolls on the track cables).
Built in 1959, The Wyler Aerial Tramway, named for El Paso radio and television pioneer Karl O. Wyler, was designed to provide maintenance access for television transmission towers until donated ...
The wooden tower was part of the Saline Valley Salt Tram, a 13-mile aerial tramway built in 1911 and used to transport salt from the Saline Valley, over the Inyo Mountains and to a processing ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Beckley/Bluefield: Oak Hill: 4 31 WOAY-TV: ABC: Bluefield: 6 17 WVVA: NBC: CW on 6.2, MeTV on 6.3, Court TV on 6.4, Start TV on 6.5, Circle on 6.6
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This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...