how were cable cars/ ropeways built in the Alps? How was all the construction material transported to the top of the mountain?
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Most of the time, smaller cables were built at the top to haul materials up the surface of the mountain. These are carried there by hand, and then more and more robust stuff is installed to handle the bigger and bigger stuff
So to start, a hiking team arrives with rope and installs a pulley system. They use that to pull up cables and infrastructure to pull up even heavier loads. If needed, they’ll do that 2-3 times until the final equipment is installed.
They build out the basic lifts first, and then use that to haul up the construction materials to build out the rest of the infrastructure.
Today, a lot of that is replaced with heavy machinery that can mitigate or eliminate the earlier stages. But “man powered” starts are still a super common means of early construction staging.
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