Drop or Ascent? Why does it matter about them? I speculated that DB would rise at 45degrees and its only 40. Still a very steep lift when you consider MF is 45.

Ascent, I already know drop.

Nitro is around a 30 degree lift hill and Behemoth is around 35 degrees...

^^Really?? Ok, that's what I was wondering since it did seem like D-back's lift was steeper than those two...interesting, indeed!! Thanks..

Just in case anyone was keeping score... We are almost to a fourth of the way to catching up with the Rumor coaster for 2009 thread.

Keep on typin' away...

EDIT: If counting posts we are 23.4% just in case anyone wanted a techincal read-out

Im not keeping score, but let me add my .1%

Just in case anyone was keeping score... We are almost to a fourth of the way to catching up with the Rumor coaster for 2009 thread.

Keep on typin' away...

EDIT: If counting posts we are 23.4% just in case anyone wanted a techincal read-out

I closed the "Rumored Coaster for 2009" thread and linked to the D-Back info thread. I wonder if this one will be just as long when I close this thread and link to the photo updates and video of its opening.

Longer FTW.

I'd say it's a good possibility. The D-Back updates roll in quickly and there's plenty to discuss.

So I wonder if we will have the tallest support in the ride to look at on Friday, I thought so earlier but they really aren't chugging away like they were several weeks ago.

A lot of the work done this week will be prep-related.

Just in case anyone was keeping score... We are almost to a fourth of the way to catching up with the Rumor coaster for 2009 thread.

Keep on typin' away...

EDIT: If counting posts we are 23.4% just in case anyone wanted a techincal read-out

I closed the "Rumored Coaster for 2009" thread and linked to the D-Back info thread. I wonder if this one will be just as long when I close this thread and link to the photo updates and video of its opening.

I'm still guessin' 8200 posts by "closing" time...

How many posts did "Rumor Coaster for 2009" have? No matter how many it had I know this'll be longer but still.

So I wonder if we will have the tallest support in the ride to look at on Friday, I thought so earlier but they really aren't chugging away like they were several weeks ago.

Just because you do not see great progress through the webcam dont assume there is not great progress being made. After all there is much prep work and detailed work that needs and is being done currently. The station is a great example of this work, the various electrical hook ups, conduit to bury, concrete to pour and numerous lines to run. Not all progress is meassured by track erection, after all the erection of a coaster is probably 10% to 15% of the total work that goes in to developing and building a major coaster.

^Yea I know I was talking about Vertical progression.

^ Don't forget that there are supports out behind the Crypt now.

Yea I didn't know which ones so I left those out

Yes, there are lots of supports up by the hammer head area. Those are hard to get on the camera though.

they finally released the big crane from the track that was put up today

Yea I think the Crane was in love with that track piece.

It's okay...it was a mere footer to your brilliant post, which was otherwise on sound footing!

Terpy, who's been known to go round in circles!

Terpy makes my head hurt...

OK, is the so called "hammerhead" actually a hammerhead or just an overbank turn?

In my opinion it's neither, but it's alot more like a hammerhead turn..

http://rcdb.com/ig594.htm?picture=10

That is what an overbanked turn is in my opinion.

It's neither! its the Tickle Giggle Turn!

How many posts did "Rumor Coaster for 2009" have? No matter how many it had I know this'll be longer but still.

That thread contained 6,677 posts across 446 pages.

I would love to see the black hat give us some hammerhead pictures. Wink wink.

Well, I can`t pull anything out of the black hat. However, I can offer the below image, which I took aboard the KI&MV Railroad on Sunday of the "hammerhead" turn area for Diamondback.

I want to take a bet, how many times will we have typed the word coaster "erection" by the time this thread is closed?

I would love to see the black hat give us some hammerhead pictures. Wink wink.

Although the Black Hat can sometimes gather information from the future, it can't pull pictures from the future. It just doesn't work that way.

Once that hammerhead is built, or erected as Cory likes to say, I'm sure Don Helbig will send us photos. The Black Hat is in the business of stealing secrets from the rich and reselling them to the poor... for a reasonable price. Not taking photos.

The Black Hat doesn't steal anything....except perhaps the thunder of other web sites!

Terpy, who took a picture once (what was it? 1963?)

So what DO they do on days like these where no noticable vertical construction goes on?

If you watch the web cam you can see them in a scaffold sort of thing being held up by the crane. They must be working on something to do with the last peice of track that went up.

I saw a flat bed pull up behind the Crypt, it's gotta have something on it because whatever it is reflects the sun real well.