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City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)

City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)

Update: 2025-11-20

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IF THE IDEA of cable car service to Timberline Lodge strikes you as a not particularly bad one, you’re not alone. Over the years since the Wyler group proposed the glass-and-steel mountaintop skyscraper, several proposals have been floated for cable-car service up the mountain. So far, only one has been built, and it was an immediate and colossal failure: The Skiway Tram project. (Government Camp, Clackamas County; 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/20-08.timberline-lodge-skiway-bus.html)

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City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)

City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)

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