Dragster Trains This Year

I am going to Cedar Point next Saturday and I am curious of a couple things about Dragster this year. First off, what do the trains look like....I have seen pics of them but I cant tell how the seating arrangement works.....is each train carrying 16 people or twelve? Also, in another post someone said that Dragster does not have the tree with the red yellow and gree light this year....is that true? If you can respond I would appreciate it.

Um, they still have the christmas tree, I don't know where you heard that. And here is a picture of the train this year. http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=712 It is almost identicle to MF trains.
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And is a picture of the train this year? What does that mean? I went to C.P last year so I know what the trains look like.......but in pictures for this year it looks like the back cart holds four ppl...whereas last year the back row was just for two ppl.

They added another row after they took off the theming.

You went early in the season last year. About a month (or two?) into operation last year, a tire fell off and went into the swamp. That was the end of the themeing for the trains. Later that year, two more seats were added to the back of the trains making the trains hold 18 people.
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Amount of people being carried on the trains can be affected by ride performance also. Today, on morning ERT the last row was left empty on all trains. About an hour later all seats were filled on all trains, as the ride seemed to run flawless for most of the afternoon. Late in the afternoon, there was some minor downtime, with rollbacks followed by. From there no riders in the last car of the trains for remainder of evening. All typical stuff as far as Dragster is concerned, but seating may vary by day, even hour. *** Edited 5/17/2004 3:23:50 AM UTC by cheese_on_a_stick***

Why was the themeing at the back of the trains removed at the first place. It actually made the trains look like a drag racer, one of CP's better pieces of theming.

*cough*Disaster Transport*cough*

If you haven't heard, one of the tires fell off the train when it was moving, which could have killed people.

This topic has been beaten to death on this forum for about a year now. To make a long story short one of the slicks fell off the train coming down the braking run last year. Theming was removed from the trains immediately. If you take a look around on Halloweekends though you can spot some of the theming used in a few props, thats the most we'll probobly see of it again.