This is the world's highest hydraulic elevator installation, containing four of the world's largest glass hydraulic elevators. They were built in 2008. The biggest challenge was that they couldn't use ropes (the load would had collapsed the ceiling) and the system installed had to be pleasing to the eye, meaning only one jack ram per car could be used.

3:24 Amazing sound of the 4 motors per cab.

This is the coolest hydraulic elevator on youtube.

I just rode these elevators yesterday and was amazed. They are huge and have epic motors. The one on the very right was out of service for some reason. Btw for those of you who are watching this these are much bigger in person than this video makes you think

@jackziegler7696

5 жыл бұрын

The pistons and pits are also ginormous

@caylebsrandomvideos3749

4 ай бұрын

They are huge!

I'm going on a field trip to the Newseum on Oct 17! I can't wait to see this amazing elevator and this amazing place!

Fun fact: CEMCOLift provided the pumps and jacks for these. However, CEMCOLift no longer exists, as Otis sold the assets to MEI last year.

I was involved in the design of these elevators. There were several major challenges. They didn't want traction elevators because they didn't want hoist ropes and counterweights to be visible. They required these cars travel at 150 FPM with a travel of 101 feet. While they are not the largest hydraulic elevators, they are very unique in the speed and travel. Check out the article in Elevator World for details on the equipment.

@LittleRockElevators

10 жыл бұрын

You did an amazing job designing this elevator.

@DieselDucy

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah as a major elevator enthusiast I found the system very impressive I'd imagine there's a lot of challenges in designing this

@billswenson8643

10 жыл бұрын

If you like this you should check out the Sperone Westwater gallery "moving room" elevator as well. When you walk into the building you are standing under the elevator with nothing between you and the elevator.

@DieselDucy

9 жыл бұрын

Bill Swenson Where is this?

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

Well, if they didn't want this to be traction, why couldn't they just have installed MaxiSpace? MaxiSpace is MRL traction and doesn't require a counterweight and can go up to 500 ft/min and 300 ft.

Well I really like's to see that my design is working fine!......thanks Custom Cabs...

Wow. That is one behemoth of an elevator!

awesome. best video of the best elite. wish i was in that elevator. i know where to go if ever i get the chance to visit washington dc. Long Live Otis

Super cool! And a really cool museum!!!

NOW THAT'S AN OTIS!!!! That is going to be the tallest hydraulic elevator in the world! Epic video Andrew!

Great video! These are nice.

Wow that's amazing

Now that's...that's pretty awesome!

Fantastic elevators! I have never seen so much glass. Imagine how much work it takes just to keep all that glass clean on the inside.

@BigBang987_Multiverse

5 ай бұрын

This is the U.S. What did you expect?

That is a nice Otis.

Now that's an amazing elevator.

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

to me it's very slow and time consuming. The motor to me looks very scary due to the ropes going very fast around the two wheels. That's the thing that freaks me the MOST on hydros. MRL traction doesn't scare me; they're fast, and convenient.

Epic motor for a dry-powered in-ground hydraulic elevator!

@DieselDucy

6 ай бұрын

It was amazing

I've been gone for a little over a year ago and my voice has gotten so un-believably deep. I plan on going to D.C. sometime next year. Hopefully, I get a chance to shoot some videos.

That is a gigantic elevator!!!!!!!

Hey, Is there any way you could upload that clip of the machine room? It would be cool to see that clip a little bigger. Thanks!

I went to the Newseum in 6th grade. I REALLY want to go back there!!!

@twmax4137

6 жыл бұрын

filmer765 i went this year, i loved it

It sort of reminds me of the glass elevator that ran outside the El Cortez hotel in San Diego.

Wow I wanna visit that place looks awsome sadly no swifty terminals in dc so Ill fly in from atl or gsp

Art and Science and Style and Safety - that is the Otis way.

Pretty impressive elevators, 4 pumps per elevator is interesting

That motor startup was the best thing I’ve ever heard

Wow!

long live otis elevators/lifts

wow. usually you see the really cool elevators as traction or roped hydraulic but by the looks of this video, the coolest elevator is inground hydro ;)

Does this beat the Minnesota Skydraukic in Atlanta?

Epic motor

Even a company as large as Otis didn't have the resources to build such massive jacks. They gave that job, as well as the job of designing the cars, to CemcoLift (which is now part of Otis). They produced what would be the largest hydraulic jacks ever built, consisting of five individual sections, and requiring specially constructed rigging to put them into place. Each of these rams is 100 feet long when fully extended and can carry up to 50,000 pounds.

So what's the limit to these? The length of pole you can truck to the site?

Nice! Did you film at the Washington Convention Center?

There is some elevators at this 21 story hotel in Panama City beach, Florida. I think there Otis.

What editor do you use?

This is the 6 or 7 story(s) hydro? Wowww!!!

I got stuck in the middle elevator there in 2010 and had to be rescued by the fire department. No joke, they removed one of the top glass panels and we climbed out

THAT WAS EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

more like a SKYdraulic elevator

@nellyraniolo1210

4 жыл бұрын

A

@SixSilverStones

Жыл бұрын

@nationalelevator we miss you

Who's doing separate video

is it just two floors?

When you showed the machine room it looked like it was traction because it had a pully, but then it sounds like a hydralic.

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

because hydraulic motors also use traction equipment so that the turbines can pump the oil into the rams. Hydraulic elevator was DUMB for this type of building, should have used MRL traction! They're not too big to be so anwyay.

@qeelevators2960

2 жыл бұрын

@@blueauraretriever Even tho I hate Mrls that kinda makes since

that is HUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGEEEEEEEE!

Starting from 2020, this museum became the Deadseum.

Directly operated. The jack rams are the largest ever built.

i went to that place

Tell me something, how do u know the difference between a traction elevator, and a Hydraulic one? Thanks, Elton.

@DieselDucy

10 жыл бұрын

Traction uses ropes and pulleys, Hydraulic uses a piston system as seen here.

@retroolschool

10 жыл бұрын

***** I now go by the amount of floors in a building, and of course the sound of the hydraulic motors. Thanks nevertheless Andrew.

@jmream2618

7 жыл бұрын

DieselDucy what's your favorite type of elevator

I can’t believe this place is closing! :(

@That_randomkid2

3 жыл бұрын

Elevator Fan well, it closed permanently already.

AWESOME MOTOR SET!

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

Those elevators should've been MRL traction. For 100 foot travel distance those things are slow. Otherwise they are amazing being glass

@stampycatfan01lol

7 жыл бұрын

Specialty Elevators and UEE's by Technicalboy3000 It sets a record, at least!

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

stampycatfan01 doesn't matter. Should be 200 ft/min if it has to stay hydraulic. The trip will take half the time and only take 30 seconds!

@stampycatfan01lol

7 жыл бұрын

Specialty Elevators and UEE's by Technicalboy3000 The fastest hydraulic I know of goes only 170 feet per minute.

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

stampycatfan01 Hydraulic elevators can go 200 you know. 170 is still pretty fast but still considerably slow for this type of setting. 200 will be not too slow not too fast

Took so long for that Otis beep haha. Where are the door sensors?

i thought the biggest hydraulic you have been on was the one in Atlanta the 14 story one.

I’m Already There Today

A HIGH-draulic elevator?

Now that's a HIGHdraulic.

Washington DC, This Go To FL In Jan 2014

Any chance we could see the motor room in a separate video?

@DieselDucy

9 жыл бұрын

Yes :)

@coondogtheman

9 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks a lot man. Been watching your vids.

How old are thees?

You should film the SkyTrain elevators at Dubai Airport. They are so large that they need 2 sets of doors!

There seems to be a lot of space between the floors. The travel distance may be equivalent to 8 or 9 floors. This is a HIGHdraulic elevator if I've ever seen one!

@JulioEliasGarzaCantu

6 жыл бұрын

Ontario's Elevators at DoubleTree McAllen also 9 floor machine room HIGHdraulic

@jackziegler7696

5 жыл бұрын

Its about 7

@Meliodas1999

5 жыл бұрын

A True Highdraulic

It may had been, I don't know for sure.

I rode this elevator in 2015

what is the maximum capacity?

That place is like 2 market parking garages stacked on top of each other!

@stampycatfan01lol

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah, true. XD

This place is closing on 12/31/19 :(

@tkefan29

4 жыл бұрын

F

@TheDash456

3 жыл бұрын

CoVID-19

@Ih8kone

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDash456 WRONG, SIR! WRONG! THAT IS NOT WHY THE NEWSEUM CLOSED!

Looks like it goes equivalent of whiskey blue... Only thing it has 4 motors and pumps instead of two and it has double capacity. Why did the place close?

@DieselDucy

2 жыл бұрын

It has 4 pumps. in ground. museum went out of business.

@QEElevators

2 жыл бұрын

@@DieselDucy Is the elevator still here or is it gone? Did they repurpose the building because if so they might’ve kept this elevator

I want to go to the NEWSEUM for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@PNWElevatorAviation

4 жыл бұрын

Yifei He But unfortunately, it's now CLOSED

What series and where they modernized.

@jackziegler7696

5 жыл бұрын

Series 2/4 vandal resistant

Do you have any good photos of the power units? This video dosen't really show detail but it's 8 years old so you don't except the same quality.

@DieselDucy

2 жыл бұрын

i do.

That is a really nice elevator I would like to ride it really big u don't have to worry about not having room :) really awsome looking do u have to get permission to ride the elevator?

@jackziegler7696

5 жыл бұрын

The way the museum works is you go through security on the first floor, then you take an escalator to the basement/concourse level. Then you ride these up to 6 and work your way down to 1

It's a direct acting one, right? this means the cylinder is really tall. using a pulley would have only needed a shorter piston.

Does the machine really start three times?

@LR-1977

3 жыл бұрын

it runs on four machines for just one elevator

This museum is now closed :(

@DieselDucy

3 жыл бұрын

It is sad. I loved this elevator!

@Ih8kone

3 жыл бұрын

@@DieselDucy I know how you feel. I never got to ride it 😭!

UPDATE: Will be closing in January 2020. This is your last chance to get your tickets to ride these glass elevators before then.

@dmvelevators

4 жыл бұрын

Funky Kong John’s Hopkins is Taking Over This and it Will Be Turned Into a School

@dmvelevators

4 жыл бұрын

Jon C I’m Sad They Are Closing These Amazing Place. I Was There Last Week and Those Elevators Were Amazing

Is this one taller than the one at Whisky Blue?

@DieselDucy

7 жыл бұрын

i am not sure. Whisky blue is roped, these are in ground.

@procksomaterman

7 жыл бұрын

***** well these are far more interesting, i was at this place in 2014, has to be one of the best attractions in the area

At 3:25 I didn't know what those 4 whoops were until I read the description lol.

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

theyr for the motor and plus this is the reason why i do not favor hydraulic elevators, I like traction elevators far better. And 2100 freaking gallons of oil? This museum sorry to say but wasn't that smart. They should have chosen MRL traction elevators, not hydraulic. Also, those things only go 0.5 m/s when the high speed hydros can go 1 m/s. TIME WASTERS!!

@twmax4137

5 жыл бұрын

It’s the motors

There’s a video of me in that elevator.

How many people can it hold?

@themaddasher7783

10 жыл бұрын

The dude that was holding the elevator card said it can hold approximately 70 people.

Take a KZread video of the freight elevator at SR Plaza in Santa Rosa Santa Rosa ca

@DieselDucy

Жыл бұрын

If I ever get there

Elevator race

What’s a NEWSEUM?

@twmax4137

5 жыл бұрын

Awesomeenderman 99 it’s a museum on journalism and American history

As much as I watch your video's I am still scared of elevators. I only ride them if I have to.

2018 video

You can hear the motor at 0:43.

@TheMatsushitaMan

9 жыл бұрын

stormblade123hsm and at 3:43.

IT SO HUGE I THINK THAT IT CAN CARRY CARS!!!

how much is it for admission?

@twmax4137

5 жыл бұрын

Ethan from what I remember it was 18 dollars for adults

@tkefan29

4 жыл бұрын

it's zero now that it's closing

E P I C WIN

Unfortunately, the Newseum closed its doors on December 31st, 2019 :( This property was sold to John Hopkins University :(

@TechNerdNolan

4 жыл бұрын

????????

@TechNerdNolan

4 жыл бұрын

????

I am afraid if the cable snaps when the elevator is full

@bradenrobison1969

7 жыл бұрын

Arthur vlogs why are you afraid???

@seanjuth

7 жыл бұрын

Arthur vlogs what cables

@twmax4137

6 жыл бұрын

It’s a hydraulic elevator it doesn’t have a cable dumbass

Neat elevators, but they really should have installed traction elevators. They would have been quieter and could have saved energy. Why are they key-carded off anyways? There are only 2 floors to choose from.

@German_R335istance

10 жыл бұрын

They may be only for handicapped or large families or elderly people, ya know?

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, better yet, MRL traction because they are fast, convenient and dont' require over 2000 freaking gallons of oil!

70 people, well you havent beat my record (90 people) :D

6 *C

Sadly, this amazing museum closed in 2019 due to financial losses, and then Johns Hopkins University started to gut this place in 2021 for their expansion project. So, what happened to these elevators? Will they be used in the renovated building, or were they removed? If they were removed, that would be extremely sad and awful if that happened?

@DieselDucy

2 жыл бұрын

yeah. these were record breaking.

@CenTexElevators489

2 жыл бұрын

@@DieselDucy Also, are these going to be reused, or are they being decommissioned?

Answer required: How come there is 4 pumps to do 1 elevator for 6 floors? #don'tknow

@DieselDucy

7 жыл бұрын

because of the capacity and speed required. Sure they could do this with one pump but it would be VERY slow.

@blueauraretriever

7 жыл бұрын

***** 1 minute for a very high hydraulic elevator doesn't sound like such a bad thing, but what if there was a emergency & you had to get to the basement in 30 seconds?

I was in in the Sam car and got stuck for 2 hours

4 motors?!

@twmax4137

6 жыл бұрын

that thing has more horsepower than my car

@tkefan29

4 жыл бұрын

lol

Four pumps? I think it's not only for passengers. It's for car!

It takes 3 pumps to push it!

@DieselDucy

4 жыл бұрын

4

@seanjuth

4 жыл бұрын

@@DieselDucy oh wow.