otis/kone traction elevator@the IDS center in minneapolis mn

[giggleblaggle]

If I had to guess, I'd say these are Schindler. Or at least modded by Schindler. Could be wrong though.

[elevatorguy101]

yepp there are soe piney woods

[PinePowerLI]

Man, Minneapolis is great. No stupid turnstyles or restricted buildings. Man I gotta get out of NY....only thing, are there any piney woods around there?

[Megaturrent21]

@PinePowerLI sadly, nowadays you have to scan a card to use the ids tower elevators.

[PinePowerLI]

@Megaturrent21 Ugh...that sucks. It seems every building wants to install turnstyles. There must be a way to create a card hack that would work to get in.

[myotismon767]

@Megaturrent21 What a miserable shame. We just lost some of our elevators to turnstiles too. It's so ironic that as we move farther away from 9/11 things are just getting worse with restricted building access. This has got to stop. It's not deterring terrorism it's just controlling the free movement of our country's own people. That's it.

[mjriedel79]

@Megaturrent21 No, you don't have to scan cards. I work in the IDS.

[mschafe132]

These are/were Otis and used to have the projection style displays. They were much cooler before they were modernized!

[domki366]

I went up there once. I could feel the wind moving the building sort of. It is cool.

[maalit72]

The brand is Schinlder  because the chimes.

[escalatorgeek881]

Those are Schindler elevators. The chime in the lobby is a Schindler European chime, which in America is only seen in skyscrapers.

[maalit72]

at my country(Israel) & at Europe, Asia; EVERY Schindler elevators with the European chime.

[CaptainElevator42189]

Yes, this is a traction elevator, since they''re the ones used in skyscrapers.