Vail Orient Express lift
Channel: NYCentral Trainspotter
Date: 06/03/2011

Here's a video of the Orient Express lift in the Back Bowls. This is a Doppelmayr high speed quad, constructed in 1988 for Vail's 25th anniversary. With 28 towers and 165 chairs, the Orient Express services the China and Siberia Bowls, and provides access to the Mongolia Bowl and Platter.

Vail's Doppelmayr high speed quads have a unique way in telling you when they were built. Those with triangular towerheads were constructed in 1986, while those with square towerheads were built in 1988.

The Orient Express lift is actually one of only three high speed quads at Vail to run clockwise (the others being the Riva Bahn Express lift and the Northwoods Express lift). All the others run counter-clockwise.