Frassenger?! JUMBO Montgomery hydraulic elevator at the National Aquarium in Baltimore MD

(📹 3/16/2024) Happy Memorial Day! Here is a massive Montgomery elevator at the Pier 4 building (where the dolphin shows and jellyfish exhibits are) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore MD. It has Innovation fixtures like the majority of 1990's Montgomery elevators. This clearly feels like a freight elevator telling by the cab and how massive it is. The motor sounds nice on this and I like the bells a lot. I have no clue on the door operator on this is MAC or not, but the linkage configuration does not feel like MAC at all. There's also plenty of dispute with the capacity of this as the aquarium added signage saying this is 5500 lbs (2500 kgs) capacity while in reality, this is 9000 lbs (4080 kgs) capacity as the engraving on the bottom of the COP says. This is a childhood elevator of mine because I rode this during my fifth grade field trip to here back in 2017. On that trip, I managed to capture some cringeworthy footage of this elevator with a Nikon Coolpix W100 weather resistant camera (and yes, I still have that camera and the memory card the video was put into).
Filming equipment:
- Camera: Samsung Galaxy S24
- Resolution of original video: 1080p
- FPS: 120
Some elevator info:
Review of the elevator
- Cab: Decent
- Fixture/button choice: Decent
- Floor passing chimes/voice annunciator: Great
- Ride quality: Good
- Condition: Good
- Speed choice: Good
- Motor: Nice
- Fun factor: Good
- Overall: Good
Other notes:
- Improvements needed: safe to edit the aquarium added capacity sign back to 9000 lbs as the COP's engraving says
- Filming risk: low
- Additional info: n/a
Elevator infrastructure:
- Installation by: Montgomery in 1990 (estimated)
- Modernization by: n/a
- Elevator model: Custom
- Propulsion: Inground hydraulic
- Power unit: Dry power
- Capacity: 9000 lbs (4080 kgs)
- Speed: 100 fpm (0.5 m/s)
- Floors traveled: 3
- Opening count: 3
- Elevator controls (current): Montgomery MIPROM
Elevator Fixtures (current):
- Buttons (hall): Innovation Universal PB-1
- Buttons (car): Innovation Universal PB-1
- Braille type/style: Square
- Fire key: FEO-K1 (retrofitted in from a Montgomery 003 key)
- Indicators: Montgomery VFD dot matrix
Elevator Doors:
- Door type: Two speed side
- Door dimensions (width x height, in inches): 48" x 84"
- Door Equipment: MAC? harmonic operator, multi-beam sensors, cable geared doors
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[@UncommonElevators]

That one is definitely on my list of favorite monties

[@dmvelevatorsandmore]

This was quite interesting

[@Mohsonicdaybreaker]

I'll never forget this elevator I took at the national aquarium in Baltimore when I was little.

[@dmvelevatorsandmore]

Same here. My footage from 2017 is guaranteed cringe and me excessively commentating with my obnoxious high pitched voice as a child.

[@khalifaalkhalifa6902]

I think is a service elevator

[@dmvelevatorsandmore]

Probably hybrid since anyone is able to use this

[@ECFE]

There is a freight elevator somewhere in this part of the building, this is not it. I think it's funny that you can go right into the dolphin auditorium with this thing without having to pay to watch a show

[@dmvelevatorsandmore]

That's interesting and quite funny at the same time. I honestly have no clue why they needed to make this elevator absolutely colossal.