If a traction elevator accelerates fast, it gets my seal of approval. This would be a prime example. Gotta check these out if I ever do manage to make to Seattle
there's a 99% chance I'll be living in skymark in reston VA by next march. at least one of the four 700FPM momentums accelerates super fast, like elevonic 401 style fast, enough to hit full speed for 5 floors of travel. i'll reach out to you in a few months since i'll be able to let people in to ride/film them. they blow away all of the nearby 500FPM Gen2s in terms of thrill
@@alternatehobbies I'll only be in the DMV area until mid January and back for a few days in March since I attend college in Erie. I will be back for the summer in the middle of May. I definitely want to check those out :)
I love that view into the shaft on these, and that voice is so nostalgic. They’re currently one of my favorite elevators in Seattle. I will say, however, that I was scared of these elevators as a small child. Something about a glass elevator shaft, but having an odd completely closed green interior kind of feels creepy, and this is only made worse due to their extremely quick acceleration: by far the quickest I’ve ever felt on an elevator of their speed and height. I’ve had nightmares about similar looking elevators accelerating so quickly upward (or decelerate going downward) that I cannot stand upright and my legs buckle. Nowadays I don’t mind them in fact I love them. The only other elevators in Seattle I can remember that accelerate like that are the space needle elevators, which I will mention are cool in a similar way in that the inner workings are visible from outside the shaft: you can sometimes see the counterweights moving on both systems as well. I’ve been long wanting to request someone to film these Seattle Central library elevators due to the view into the shaft and super quick acceleration, which by the way I now find fun and honestly cool.
Thanks for sharing all your memories! These reminded me a lot of the elevators at the Library of Congress. They also have glass shafts and used to have insane acceleration before they got modernized around 2010. I used to be scared of old Otis high-rise elevators as a kid because of how harshly they would start and stop. Now I love them but there aren't many left. That being said, I've been on some older elevators which are much smoother than the ones in this video.
Cool! I might add that I totally forgot about that noise the counterweight makes at 2:09. Sure it’s just a “something moving fast” noise, but I associate it with the library elevators so much that I actually smelled books when I heard it. The old button panel in the elevator was a cross section of the building itself, with the floor buttons aligning with the real floors. The floors with taller ceilings actually had taller buttons!
If a traction elevator accelerates fast, it gets my seal of approval. This would be a prime example. Gotta check these out if I ever do manage to make to Seattle
there's a 99% chance I'll be living in skymark in reston VA by next march. at least one of the four 700FPM momentums accelerates super fast, like elevonic 401 style fast, enough to hit full speed for 5 floors of travel. i'll reach out to you in a few months since i'll be able to let people in to ride/film them. they blow away all of the nearby 500FPM Gen2s in terms of thrill
@@alternatehobbies I'll only be in the DMV area until mid January and back for a few days in March since I attend college in Erie. I will be back for the summer in the middle of May. I definitely want to check those out :)
I love that view into the shaft on these, and that voice is so nostalgic. They’re currently one of my favorite elevators in Seattle.
I will say, however, that I was scared of these elevators as a small child. Something about a glass elevator shaft, but having an odd completely closed green interior kind of feels creepy, and this is only made worse due to their extremely quick acceleration: by far the quickest I’ve ever felt on an elevator of their speed and height. I’ve had nightmares about similar looking elevators accelerating so quickly upward (or decelerate going downward) that I cannot stand upright and my legs buckle. Nowadays I don’t mind them in fact I love them. The only other elevators in Seattle I can remember that accelerate like that are the space needle elevators, which I will mention are cool in a similar way in that the inner workings are visible from outside the shaft: you can sometimes see the counterweights moving on both systems as well. I’ve been long wanting to request someone to film these Seattle Central library elevators due to the view into the shaft and super quick acceleration, which by the way I now find fun and honestly cool.
Thanks for sharing all your memories! These reminded me a lot of the elevators at the Library of Congress. They also have glass shafts and used to have insane acceleration before they got modernized around 2010. I used to be scared of old Otis high-rise elevators as a kid because of how harshly they would start and stop. Now I love them but there aren't many left. That being said, I've been on some older elevators which are much smoother than the ones in this video.
Cool! I might add that I totally forgot about that noise the counterweight makes at 2:09. Sure it’s just a “something moving fast” noise, but I associate it with the library elevators so much that I actually smelled books when I heard it.
The old button panel in the elevator was a cross section of the building itself, with the floor buttons aligning with the real floors. The floors with taller ceilings actually had taller buttons!
What exactly is this voice? It’s rare for a programmed voice in an elevator to be male. It’s the only one of its kind I’ve heard, ever.
Not sure, but I've heard that voice in a few other videos.