This blog is my collection of photos and videos of elevators.





Each elevator is given a speed.





Very Slow - less than 100 feet per minute

Slow - 100 to 199 feet per minute

Medium - 200 to 299 feet per minute

Fast - 300 to 699 feet per minute

Very Fast - 700 to 999 feet per minute

High Speed - more than 999 feet per minute

Monday, December 23, 2019

Pima County Public Service Center Parking Garage Tucson AZ

Glass Elevator



Speed: Medium (200 FPM)

Power: MRL Traction

Floors:
1 - parking garage 1
2 - parking garage 2
3 - parking garage 3
4 - parking garage 4
5 - parking garage 5
6 - parking garage 6
7 - parking garage 7

Type: Otis Gen2 (Newer Series 2)

Non Glass Elevator



Speed: Medium (200 FPM)

Power: MRL Traction

Floors:
LL - access to main building
1 - parking garage 1
2 - parking garage 2
3 - parking garage 3
4 - parking garage 4
5 - parking garage 5
6 - parking garage 6
7 - parking garage 7

Type: Otis Gen2 (Newer Series 2)

Wells Fargo Building Downtown Tucson AZ

Parking Garage Elevator

This elevator goes to the odd floors. To go to the even floors, you have to go up a ramp from the odd floor you're currently on. Capacity is 2000 lbs and it has 2 sets of doors.


Speed: Slow

Power: Hydraulic

Floors:
1 - parking garage 1 and exit
3 - parking garage 3
5 - parking garage 5
7 - parking garage 7

Type: Montgomery/Kone

Main Elevator



Speed: Slow

Power: Hydraulic

Floors:
B - basement
G - ground floor and banking hall
2 - offices
3 - offices

Type: Kone

Pioneer Building Downtown Tucson AZ

This is a building from the 1930's that used to be a hotel but it's now an office building. The architecture changed due to the fire that happened a long long time ago. The elevators there are Otis.



Elevator with 2 sets of doors

This elevator has 2 sets of doors, and unlike the set of two elevators this elevator has otis series 7 fixtures and the capacity is 2500 lbs. These go all floors 1-5.

Speed: Fast (400 FPM)

Power: Geared Traction

Floors:
1 - lobby
2 - offices
3 - offices
4 - offices
5 - offices

Type: Otis (mod w/ Otis Series M2)

Capacity: 2500 LBS

Set of 2 elevators

These elevators are rather small and the capacity is 2000 lbs. These elevators have innovation decorator fixtures and go to all floors. One of the elevators go down to the basement. I don't know what exactly is at the basement, something spooky I guess.

Speed: Fast (350 FPM)

Power: Geared Traction

Floors:
B - basement
1  - lobby
2 - offices
3 - offices
4 - offices
5 - offices
6 - offices
7 - offices
8 - offices
9 - offices
10 - offices
11 - offices

Type: Otis (mod w/ Innovation Decorator)

Capacity: 2000 LBS (that's rather small)

Two East Congress Street (Chase Building) Tucson AZ

This is an office building with otis elevators modded by Kone which go fast. They used to be manually controlled, then they were replaced with otis black button elevators that go I'd say, 600 FPM, and now they got modded into kone with innovation universal in the late 2000's to early 2010's.


Speed: Fast (500 FPM, formerly 600 FPM)

Power: Gearless Traction

Floors:
B - basement
L - lobby and entrance
M - mezzanine
2 - offices
3 - offices
4 - offices
5 - offices
6 - offices
7 - offices
8 - offices
9 - offices
10 - offices

Type: Otis (mod by Kone)

Capacity: 2200 LBS

20 East Congress Street Tucson AZ

This is 20 E Congress street in Tucson AZ which is mostly easy to film. It has a modern-day Otis Gen2 elevator.



Speed: Slow (150 FPM)

Power: MRL Traction

Floors:
LL - lower level
1 - entrance
2 - offices
3 - offices

Type: Otis Gen2 (Newer Series 2)

Capacity: 2100 LBS

Monday, December 9, 2019

One South Church Avenue Tucson AZ

This is One South Church, the tallest building in Tucson, which is one of three tucson's skyscrapers. This is a class A office building whose security level is low to none, and it has Otis Elevonic 401 elevators from the 1980's with Lexan buttons. The security level is also the "I don't care if you film" kind of level


Low Rise Elevators

For the amount of floors it travels, these go 500 FPM. The capacity is 3000 lbs.

Speed: Fast (500 FPM)

Power: Gearless Traction

Floors:
L - lobby
2 - offices
5 - offices
6 - offices
7 - offices
8 - offices
9 - offices

Type: Otis Elevonic 401 w/ Lexan fixtures

Capacity: 3000 LBS

High Rise Elevators

These elevators are the fastest in the city tied with 33 North Stone. These go 700 FPM and the capacity is 3500 lbs. In fact, these  are slightly bigger than the low rise elevators

Speed: Very Fast (700 FPM)

Power: Gearless Traction

Floors:
L - lobby
9 - offices
10 - offices
11 - offices
12 - offices
14 - offices
15 - offices
16 - offices
17 - offices
18 - offices
19 - offices
20 - offices
21 - offices
22 - offices

Type: Otis Elevonic 401 w/ Lexan fixtures

Capacity: 3500 LBS

Parking Garage Elevators

These elevators are hydraulic otis series 1 and they have the same capacity as the low rise elevators.

Speed: Slow

Power: Hydraulic

Floors:
P3 - parking garage 3
P2 - parking garage 2
P1 - parking garage 1
L - lobby

Type: Older Otis Series 1

Capacity: 3000 LBS