Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS — The Gateway Arch was briefly evacuated on Monday morning after a report of a fire on an elevator. The St. Louis Fire Department was called at around 10:45 a.m. to ...

Elevators need not be boring metal boxes carrying ... on a 4-minute ride to the observation deck atop the Gateway Arch. Two trams disembark from each leg of St. Louis' most famous landmark every ...

People were stuck in the St. Louis Arch's tram, a small capsule that takes ... There's no word on how many people were in the elevator, but this is truly the stuff of nightmares.

4. The unique tram system was invented by a man with no formal engineering training Thanks to the curved shape of the arch, a regular elevator couldn’t bring visitors from the base to the top.

Richard Bowser, 82, a retired senior transportation engineer with the National Park Service who invented the tram elevator system that ferries passengers up the St. Louis Gateway Arch, died Dec ...

Elevators have been around for quite a long time; maybe not those that soar to hundreds of feet in a matter of seconds, but the primitive ancestors of this technology, often man-powered, were ...

Otis elevators are in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building at 2,722 ft. Image © Emaar properties. But it was Otis' elevator that would allow for ...

Brown, assistant superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, rode the elevator used by workers ... CORE agreed to stay away from the Arch while the National Park Service reviewed ...