The Alyeska Resort tram was built in 1989 at a cost of 1.6 million dollars.  It transports skiers, sightseers, and patrons of the Seven Glaciers and Glacier Express restaurant to an elevation of 2,300 feet on Mount Alyeska.  The tram spans 3,869 feet and its vertical rise is 2,025 feet.  The tram has a capacity of 60 people but the resort’s regulations only allow for 40 passengers, and it operates year round except for late April, early May, and the entire month of November.

A tramcar arrives at the mountainside tram dock while another tram car is arriving at the base tram dock. This counterbalances the weight on the cables.

Guide wheels guide tram cables above the machine room there the electric engines power the tram.

One tram car arrives at the mountain terminal while another arrives at the base terminal in order to counter-balance their weight.

Guide wheels on the floor of the tram terminal, operating as part of a pulley, brace the tension of the cables that power the tram.

Sean Ramierez, and Alyeska Resort tram operator, points to the emergency brake handle in the tram car. The emergency brake is mechanical while the service brake is hydraulic.

A guide wheel braces the drive cable, routed from the wheels on the ceiling, to the electric engines that power the tram.A 16,000 watt electric engine powers the tram cars' ascent and descent.

A diesel engine is used as a backup for the electrical engine in case of a power failure.

Hydraulic lines lead to the outside of the base tram terminal. They allow for the tram's drive terminal to be connected to a snowcat's engine incase of a backup engine failure.