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Image 1 
Freight Elevator - Abandoned Building - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This image was the very first Picture of the Week.
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Image 2 
The remnants of an installation that had wood guides...
The building has since been modernized and the elevator was removed.
Image provided by: Tim Mayer
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Image 3 
Trying to decide what type of wood this is...
Image provided by: Oscar Holmes
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Image 4 
These wood guides seem to have a serrated metal insert for
a safety device similar to the one Elisha G. Otis demonstated.
Image 4 provided by: Hal Klein
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Image 5 
This image appears to be enhanced and these may not be wood guides...
But it is a beautiful image...is it not?
Image provided by: Carol Langley
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Image 6
There is a lot of wood in this image...
Not real clear is it...but you can see the actual guide fastener holes.
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Image 7 
(1 of 6)
Ghost Town and Mine in Bodie, California, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Calico Bill Cody
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Image 8 
(2 of 6)
Two 'cars' in this installation...
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Image 9 
(3 of 6)
Another view of the top of the hoistway...
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Image 10 
(4 of 6)
Several safety enhancements - broken rope safeties and 'L' bars for doors...
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Image 11 
(5 of 6)
Two willing passengers...
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Image 12 
(6 of 6)
The business end of the safety device...
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Image 13 
Somewhere near Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.
I wonder if the devices at A and B are for locking the
car at the landing during loading and unloading?
Perhaps the 'handle' at C would set/release these dogs?
D is the spring that actuates the broken rope/chain safety.
Image provided by: Calico Bill Cody
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Image 14
Park City Historical Society and Museum in Park City, Utah, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Julie Dent
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Image 15 
A freight car hoistway...
Image provided by: Gary Bonttes
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Image 16
A lot of wood here in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A.
...but it appears that there is only one suspension rope!
Image provided by: Sammie Roux
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Image 17 
Derelict factory in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Image provided by: Zac Vosiour
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Image 18
Oldest derelict elevator in Tel Aviv, Israel
Looks like a corner-post installation...
Image provided by: Carl Goldman
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Image 19
The derelict Hot Lake Hotel in Union, Oregon, U.S.A.
This installation is about 100 years old.
Image provided by: Bob Hanson
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Image 20 (1 of 3)
A set of car guides on the same wall...
Image provided by: Sarah Jones
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Image 21 (2 of 3)
A close-up - you can see the fastener holes for the guides...
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Image 22 (3 of 3)
The opposite wall with two car guides and the guides for the counterweight...
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Image 23 
Derelict in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Image provided by: Peter Caire
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Image 24
So old that it's out of focus...but there is a lot of wood!
Image provided by: Ty Wrap
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Image 25 
Several interesting points here:
The suspension ropes have been removed...
We have a clear view of the wood guides...
The top landing gate looks quite short due to the limited amount
of overhead space - which was permissible in the 'old' days...
...and there's a big hole in the machine room floor!
Image provided by: Carney Watts
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Image 26
Looks like a chain is being used as the suspension means...
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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Image 27 
You can see balance weights in the tray on this hand powered man platform...
Pull up on that stationary manila rope to go down and down to go up.
The counterweight might be enclosed in that box behind the right guide.
Image provided by: Roger Ailes
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Image 28 
An AC motor driven, double v-belt "elevator" in Helena, Arkansas, U.S.A.
I believe you can see the two driven sheaves better in the larger image...
You can also see one of the guide rails in front of the larger sheave...
Image provided by: Amoz Eckerson
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Image 29 
(1 of 2)
A Sedgwick hand elevator that has seen better days...
Please note the counterweight to the left...
Image provided by: Raymond Roux
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Image 30 
(2 of 2)
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Image provided by: Raymond Roux
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