Westinghouse/Schindler High-Rise Traction Elevators [Forest Hills Tower]

Riding some of my favorite elevators in the office building that's a 10min walk from my school. These were modernized very recently; when I first came here they still had

signs around stating that there was a modernization going on. Schindler has done a beautiful job here, using TXPress fixtures to redo the fixtures and a Miconic HX controller.

Not terribly fast but you never wait long for a car here. Interestingly, when the lift is leveling the floor counter does not change until the doors open, kind of the reverse

of typical Schindler behavior.

These originally had Westinghouse AE/EPCO Circleline buttons in the cab. The hall callbuttons on the upper floors are in fact original.

Brand: Westinghouse
Installed: 1983
Modernized: Schindler, 2009
Machine: Geared Traction
Floors Served: [G], *L, [8], 9 - 17
Fixtures: TXPress, with custom GAL buttons on upper levels

Ride Quality: Good. Sometimes bouncy.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Westinghouse/Schindler
• High-Rise
• Traction
• Elevators
• [Forest
• Hills
• Tower]
• good
• ride
• quality
• 1989
• modernized
• 2009
• Schindler
• TXpress
• Miconic
• HX
• geared
• traction
• westinghouse
• ae
• epco
• circleline

[lllllll0o]

This is funny. You can find a Floor 8 at 3:00.

[revo8778]

Yes, but the button never does naything, and only that elevator car has it.

[Ih8escalators]

That's technically mid-rise.

[revo8778]

I used low- and high-rise to help label the lifts in this place a little better.

Oh james, you and your useless comments...

[suzzex]

I love the TXpress we have here.

[suzzex]

@revo8778 That comment is not useless, in fact it's more accurate.