3 train operation on most coasters?
All I tell you is that its still the peak season. Or does SFDL stop full capacity in August?
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2002/2003
KPTM
SFDL stops full capacity the entire season. I went to DL in the middle of the summer and Sros still had 1 train running along with ALL the coasters in the park except Viper. Go figure.
To answer your question, yes. They sometimes pull a train off at night on the less popular coasters because of less ridership, but they all run 3 train operation as much as mechanically possible
I've seen multi-train operations throughout the day at most outdoor theme parks except during rain (even a drizzle) or in the late in the season (October). I've been stuck on a couple large-crowd, single-train operation days - once at SFDL and once at Hersheypark, but luckily never at Cedar Point. Both times I suffered through single-train operations, it had just rained or was still raining. When coaster brakes get wet, a train entering the brake station at normal speed might take an extra 6 feet or more to stop. (Just like wet bicycle brakes.) On Hersheypark's Comet, I saw a train slide 3 feet past the normal loading markers, despite the fact it rolled in at slow speed after braking to a complete stop just outside the station. I guess park operators would prefer to tripple our wait time than contemplate the lawsuits from one 28-passenger train rear-ending another 28-passenger train at the station...
Each ride has a "budget" for each day of the year. This budget states how many units to run and what positions to have the ride hosts work. On Corkscrew we were budgeted to run 3 trains all season. The park will always try to open with 3 trains, then transfer off if the line dictates.
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Formerly the imbecile known as ddogg
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2003 Super Screw Crew
CP is the only park excluding IOA that seems to run all of their coasters to full capacity. There are always times when there is a mechanical problem here or there, but CP capacity rocks!
On Raptor the transfer is before the Station, just after the brakes, following the helix.
If ya get what im saying here is After the helix you enter the brakes, there is a green floor below you. Right before the Station there is a Transfer track, and storage tracks beside the main track into the station.
I've seen a train docked right before closing on my last ride of the night, its kinda eerie to see an empty, lifeless Raptor train...
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TTD: 4 (Rollbacks seen: 24)
MF: 18
WT: 8
"C'mon, get off the rails guys, listen to the guy with the Disaster Transport uniform on!"
*** This post was edited by MrFat699 8/22/2003 11:36:14 AM ***
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