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A counterweight on the outside wall of a building in Madrid, Spain
Perhaps this is where this elevator's counterweight is located...
Image provided by: Carlos Lopez
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Same counterweight...Madrid, Spain
As you can see it is guided by wire ropes...
Image provided by: Carlos Lopez
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A derelict installation in Sanatorio de La Barranca - Barranca, Spain
I have never seen a counterweight enter a machine room like this...
Image provided by: Carlos Barboza
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Another freight car with corner guides...
Image provided by: Ida Beenthar
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This counterweight appears to be riding below a second counterweight...
Do you think the weights have been landed once or twice?
Image provided by: Quinton Briggs
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Counterweights especially designed to help open vertically sliding freight doors...
which, I think, were originally opened by compressed air!
Image provided by: Jerry Follen
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Guided by four wire ropes - somewhere in Alexandria, Egypt
Image provided by: Bob Smith
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Car is at the bottom landing...
Image provided by: Rufus Kelly
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A lovely counterweight and image from Valparaiso, Chile
Image provided by: Janet Torres
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New York, New York, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Shawn Wallace
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The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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Notice the "counterweight guides" for this weight...
Image "borrowed" from: Ray Soemarsono
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Another view of the "counterweight guides"...
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Image "borrowed" from: Jim Winstead
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Somewhere in Bristol, The United Kingdom
Image provided by: Norris Palie
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A derelict building in Brussels, Belgium
I always wondered what happened to weight #B49/98004/02...
Image provided by: Orin McKnight
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Somewhere in the Catskill Mountains in New York, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Morry Goldstein
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I wonder how many stones these counterweights weigh...
Clock and bell counterweights in Eibau, Germany
(I just had to post this image...thanks Herb!)
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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A counterweight made partially of concrete - somewhere in Israel...
Image provided by: Ari Riback
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Levi Strauss & Company building in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Steve Lindburgh
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A cruise ship...I wonder if this counterweight has a safety device?
Image provided by: Patti Jurst
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Relaxing before going to work...
Image "borrowed" from: Harris International Elevator
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Wire ropes used as counterweight guides...
Image provided by: Rip Taylor
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The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts
Image provided by: Marvin Mayer
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The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts
The must have run out of money for paint...
Image provided by: Marvin Mayer
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It appears easy to come into contact with this weight in Florence, Italy
Image provided by: Father Guido Sarducci
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A job well done...and signed-off!
Image provided by: Joe, Pat & Brandon
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An interesting looking pit...
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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Somewhere in London, The United Kingdom
There is no counterweight frame...just four tie rods.
Image provided by: Patrick Keller
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Something appears to be wrong in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Image provided by: Sid Francis
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A counterweight on the Ninth Street Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
(It does help elevate the bridge...)
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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