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Fitchburg: ThyssenKrupp modernizing the Payne Elevators in Simmonds Building (Burbank Hospital)

2,562 views · Published 5 January 2012 · 4:45 · Indexed 24 September 2026

Channel: georgef551 · 2012 · Science & Technology

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We knew this was likely coming, with the expansion and renovation projects at Burbank Hospital, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
In the 1976 Simmonds Building expansion, the elevators are about to get modernized by ThyssenKrupp, as evident in the elevator thought to be dead, being their first victim.
We get one last ride (or two, or more....) on one of these Payne Traction Elevators, before they fall to the same fate.
Gone will be the original buttons, replaced with "new" and "exciting" GAL Jet-Plus (as seen on the call stations). Of course, we can't have a mod, without the infamous "ACME" floor counter, can we?
This may be the last video of these as they are.

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