Northern & Western New Jersey Lift Filming Journal

Throughout the course of 2018, I have been able to expand the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System to over 35 TIMES its original coverage! And I still have a trough more to add from October to December 2018. History of the CCRS 2017 To think that just 9 months ago, this was the  entire size of the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System. It was THAT SMALL! And it wasn’t even called the CCRS. It was called the  Charlotte Kingdom!   To be fair, the list of cities with great lifts was born on  5.30.2017 , almost 7 months BEFORE! Charlotte was the  very first city to make it on the CCRS, due to the  sheer variety of modernly  unique lifts found throughout the city, by appearance & run character. I watched over 200 videos of lifts in Charlotte on YouTube during the days leading up to May 30, 2017. I watched my first video  as early as Thursday April 20, 2017 (This was EVEN BEFORE I KNEW CLINTON TOWNSHIP WAS A THING!)  I was obviously impre...

As you all know, 2018 wasn’t AS GREAT for lift filming as I was hoping for. However, I have made many important additions to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System over the past 9 months since January 2018, including adding many New Jersey towns, cities & townships (Elizabeth Area, Freehold Township, Bridgewater Township & Clinton Township Area). Reflection During the winter of 2018, I managed to film THREE LIFTS in Elizabeth (now the Elizabeth Area), my first lift in Bridgewater Township, managed to film almost EVERY passenger lift in the Borgata & Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City & even film a 1960s OTIS in the Elizabeth Area! Of course, I was extremely impressed with the lifts I have ridden & filmed in Elizabeth during the winter of 2018. As for the spring of 2018, I wasn’t that heavy on lift filming like I was hoping for. I managed to film some KONE & OTIS lifts in Secaucus, a basic 2-story Schindler hydro in Jersey City & a ThyssenKrupp hydro in a uni...

For the next quarter of 2018, I now have no specific plans to film any more lifts outside of Hunterdon County. My most recent trip to Scranton PA left a bitter taste in my mouth (A similar thing that happened in Atlantic City happened in Scranton). To REDUCE RISK of future bad spells from future CCRS trips when I’m NOT going there by myself, I am restricting my boundaries strictly to Hunterdon County . This goes with saying that I am PERFECTLY happy staying inside of Hunterdon County, as Hunterdon County still has a small selection of good lifts in their low rising buildings. Here is a list of every trip this part of the year that was supposed to happen but have been canceled BECAUSE OF Atlantic City & partly Scranton: THREE Elizabeth trips (9.15, 10.13 & 12.15) TWO Secaucus trips (11.10 & 12.15) Pittsburgh or Hartford trip (12.22-24) October Hartford trip (10.7-8) I am quite happy I have canceled these 7 lift filming trips for the close of 2018 since I probably wou...

This video shows proof that there in fact, is a Schindler 5500 in the city of Washington DC. Because there is a Schindler 5500 with already the enormous amount of other Schindler lifts throughout the city of Washington DC, DC will now have a solid ranking on the CCRS. In fact, other cities, towns & townships in Arlington County will now be considered on the CCRS for their high volume of unique Schindler , KONE & OTIS lifts. ThyssenKrupp tractions will be ignored. Charlotte now has a SEMI-PERMANENT (still open for kickdowns to 2nd place) ranking on the CCRS. This means that if Charlotte were to be kicked down to second place by another city that has the potential to be higher-ranking than Charlotte (one example is Atlantic City), then in the example, the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System would become the Atlantic Jersey Ranking System instead. However, because Charlotte was the first city discovered, the chances of it being kicked down are highly unlikely, given it has som...

Hi frirnds, Washington D.C. I am very excited to officially open a NEW empty spot for Washington D.C. Over the past several months, I have seen a lot of different lift videos from Washington DC (of course, paying attention to EVERY INCH OF DETAIL PER VIDEO) & I will have to say, I was blown away with what I was seeing! There are quite a handful of Montgomery lifts, OTIS Gen2, Westinghouse lifts, Dover relay logic lifts Schindler 6400 & 400A, a few KONE lifts & there are even Schindler glass lifts! Of course, I saw a few ThyssenKrupp lifts & clicked on a different lift video each time I saw a ThyssenKrupp lift video. Here is what I got: I predict Washington DC’s average lift criticism rating at a solid 9/15, which is the same average rating as I gave both Freehold & Clinton Township. As for lifts, MOST are OTIS, but they are interesting forms of modern OTIS lifts, including some generic OTIS heavy duty lifts at the Smithsonian African Museum in downtown Washingt...

Congratulations! I have been able to make  full, complete new additions to CCRS, as of September 1st! Of course, these new additions & revisions apply as of TODAY! Here are the additions & revisions made since 6.16.18, which was my 4th lift filming trip to Elizabeth (towns, townships, counties & areas get a *, where known cities in the area are listed below): Charlotte* Area Charlotte Pineville Gastonia Concord Asheville Raleigh (Raleigh will include Durham on 10.27.18) Atlantic City* Area Atlantic City SOUTH  Hamilton Township Egg Harbor Township Secaucus* Elizabeth* Area (has moved from 11 to 6): Elizabeth Newark Union Harrison East Rutherford Edison Township* Lyndhurst Township* Woodbridge Township* Millburn Township* Freehold Township* (Entire Monmouth county will be considered on October 27) Morris Township* (Entire township is now considered instead of just the town) Bridgewater Township* Clinton Township* Area (Once lifts ha...