Thank goodness for the ski lift!
Posted by Samantha Tisinger on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 2:14 PM
By Samantha Tisinger / February 23, 2023
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Did you know that Omaha Native and Union Pacific Engineer, James Curran, invented the ski chairlift?? A chairlift may seem like an unlikely project for a railroad company, but, in the 1930s, Union Pacific developed the first destination ski resort in the United States (Sun Valley Resort in Ketchum, Idaho.) The idea was that building a resort-style ski area in the U.S. would help boost passenger rail travel. Sure enough, high-end vacationers flocked to Sun Valley Resort when it opened in December 1936, with the world’s first chairlifts. 
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