Hello all.. I hope everyone is having a great day. I was looking at the pics from the construction tour and i saw this pic. What ride do these go to anyway?

Well have a good one

God Bless

Steve

What is this?

It looks like the Cars to Runaway Reptar under a shelter near the Picnic Grove

Edited January 1, 197056 yr by Scooby_Doo

That is indeed what they are. The park built special trailers for the cars so that they can wheel them around and better move them for mid-winter maintenance.

That's the Picnic Grove... DUH

Yeah Reptar

That's what they use to torture people who break the gag order.

Yup, thats definatly Reptar. Considering the only other inverted coaster we have is Face/Off, and those don't look like F/O. (Before anyone argues, Top Gun is swinging, not inverted)

i agree..Yup Top Gun is swinging

I guess the cat is out of the bag. Those are the new stand-up cars for Days Of Thunder in 05.

LOL

Those apparatus are pretty nifty, I must say. It makes sense though that they would buy/build something like that to keep the coasters in better condition. It would make sense to see Top Gun and Face Off trains to also be hung on those things.

It looks like they disassemble the sit-down trains that are stored in the picnic grove. Would it make more sense just to build makeshift track rails to set the individual cars on instead of having to take the things apart?

I know that when any park recieves new coaster trains from Intamin, they ship the individual cars on their own makeshift rails.

I doubt that making rails for the trains would make much sense. They probably do things like replace wheeels and brake fins and other things on the bottom of the train. Also, putting them on tracks would take much more space to store them.

Not only would it take more space to store them... it would be that much more hard to transport them. They currently have specially designed racks that the cars sit on which are "fork-able". Thus they can drive a flat bed truck up, pick up each car with a fork lift and load a bunch on the truck and drive away.

I guess the cat is out of the bag. Those are the new stand-up cars for Days Of Thunder in 05.

LMAO!

Not only would it take more space to store them... it would be that much more hard to transport them. They currently have specially designed racks that the cars sit on which are "fork-able". Thus they can drive a flat bed truck up, pick up each car with a fork lift and load a bunch on the truck and drive away.

I suppose that does make more sense.

If that's where Runaway Raptor's trains are stored...then where are Face/Off's trains stored?

California.

yea they store them inside the FoF building. um..they probably just put them somewhere else.. there's plenty of shelters they can (and do) put trains in.

California.

LOL

Is it neccessary for coaster cars/trains to be stored under a shelter of some type? Or does PKI just go the extra mile? The reason I ask is becuase Cedar Point stores many of their coaster cars/trains out in the weather. (Take a look at their web cam of TTD - you can see the Dragster cars sitting on the ground!) I've also seen desktop wallpaper of Gemini when it was snowing, and the Gemini trains/cars are sitting right on the Gemini midway.

I would imagine that it doesn't matter, but it is probably better for the

cars and it makes the cars easier to inspect.

I'm no rides mechanic but common logic would tell you keeping them out of the elements in the winter would save on wear and tear.

Some of them are out in the weather, I've seen SOB, Adventure Express, and Vortex trains out by PKIU. Obviously it was just the fiberglass cars though, no wheels or lap bars, etc.

I think most of the rides at PKI are kept in some kind of shelter. I know SOB trains, WWC boats, Express trains, and I think some HB rides arent kept in shelter but have covers on them. Even the cars/trains that are kept in shelter (most of them) have covers on them anyway just to go that extra mile to protect from the winter weather. Oh and also Racer trains are stored outside of FoF. I dont know, this might have changed but thats the way it was the last time I saw and that was in the middle of November.

When I saw the trains outside by PKIU, it was right before the season started, so they were probably recently moved...

i agree..Yup Top Gun is swinging

Suspended.

Whatever..... in my eyes Top Gun is a Swinging Coaster because thats all you do on that Coaster!

Swinging Coaster? What the...? It's a suspended. If something is suspended, it can swing. I see why one MAY call it a swinging coaster, but that name is ludacris! The official model name is the Arrow Suspended Coaster.

Calling it a swinging coaster is like calling a Corvette a dragster!

Actually, he is right. A swinging coaster is called Suspended, and a Vekoma looper is called an Inverted coaster. There is a difference.

it may be something different...but just call it whatever you wanna call it!!! Its a free country!!

Haha....

Steve!

Probly rehab.