 After the fair, this served as the second urban aerial lift and the first gondola lift commuter system in the United States,
in operation for just a year before closing.The system featured 53 separate cars, a cross-river cable, twin steel towers that lifted the cable into the air, two station houses, concrete pillars that anchored the cable and two steel towers.Each of the two main towers were supported with steel piles driven into the ground, with each tower weighing .