I did a Fire Alarm inspection about 20 years ago at the Dept of Agriculture in DC. It still had all of the original GE elevator equipment. The motors were huge, the floor was covered with a layer of black dust from, I guess, the motor brushes. The relays were also huge, startling and very loud...They have like 12 banks of elevators with that equipment.
Montgomery Elevator Company, the company that made the elevator tramway for the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Pretty nifty. That motor sound it makes, sounds like what had been recorded to be used in movies over the years signify an industrial motor running. I want to hear more of that.
This one was an "Imperial", with MECOs name on the nameplate. The machine room looks pretty standard, maybe a bit more roomy than a lot of them I saw during 40 years in the industry, 31 of them with MECO and their successor, KONE, in Canada.
Heh, quite possibly one of the last relay logic-based Montgomery elevators to be installed, seeing as how Montgomery's first solid-state controller was introduced in around 1979.
the ropes leading down to the counterweight, like a 45 or 50 degree angle hope there is a deflector sheave below the floor. Makes me wonder if the counterweight has a separate hoist way or this is a big elevator cab requiring the counterweight ropes to be placed further back than straight back down the opposite side of the driven sheave. I did see any indication it was a 2:1 roping.
@@SPS8elevatorsoflakecounty Ah, I was on the right track, being a big elevator cab, a fright elevator. Years ago I knew of an Otis fright elevator in a dept store which had power doors it was huge, likely had this sort of roping. My former job in a hotel had two geared traction elevators, one had a cover over the driven sheave, other did not. But separate machines rooms one floor up from the other.
I wish i knew a person that was into this type of stuff and we go and experince these things together. I never been in this type of elevator room, only a hydraulic room.
I feel you, I felt the same way before I started meeting up with other enthusiasts. Best thing to do is to reach out to other people who film in or near your area (if you can find any)
I was an electrician in Philly for 20+ years so I got to go in many old elevator rooms. I was in one that was upgraded to modern equipment, and they left behind a cool old OTIS parts cabinet and a neat metal rag bucket, so I got those.
