blue streak and corkscrew question???

How come the corkscrew has 3 trains and is only 2,050 feet long,but the blue streak is 2,558 long and only has 2 trains?

Because the Corkscrew was blocked for three trains and the Blue Streak was designed for two. It doesn't have anything to do with the total track length. It is the position of the lift, station, brake runs etc. relative to the rides timing.

Exactly: think, if the ride had to stop suddenly, where would it end up? The Blue Streak can only be in the station or on the lift, but the Corkscrew has a loooong brake run outside the station to account for the extra train.

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totally two different worlds hothitz..Tim and Crystalcat have the basic Idea..remember your comparing a looping steely to a classic wood..different design to give a different effect..Technology of the 70's vs Manual Power of the 60's

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doesent the blue streak have a farley long brake run?you know the coverd area.

I thought Blue streak had at least 4 blocks. Begining and lift, course and brake run and 2 in the station, from the 2 stop loading days.
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Joe

Joe has a good point... Blue Streak might actually be able to handle three trains.

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it would really increse the thrueput of the ride.

In its former glory, maybe. With the unloading and loading area's as well as having only the a single bar and a seatbelt to check.

Send train #1 out while train #3 is heading back. Train #2 moves into the loading area and gets, well loaded. By the time the train #1 reaches the top of the lift, #3 should be back at the unload area. Once #1 hits the turnaround, send train #2 out and it cycles from there.

Of course this is all theory and it was not built for this. New trains, Sensor's, and money to slighlty increase the capacity of a not so popluar ride will never fly.

I know one PTC out and back which had three trains. EBP's Thriller did, and that was built in the 20's.

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Joe

Remember, prior to 1994, Blue Streak had skid brakes and two stop loading. It did have an automated safety system that would attempt to stop the train uptrack of the station if the other train were still in the loading area. I only saw that happen once, and the nose of the train was in the unloading station. The ride had only three blocks on it...loading station, lift, and brake run/unloading station. The new brakes are based on blocks on the lift, the brake run, and the station. Look more closely...there is no brake caliper in the old unloading area, where the transfer table is now. So it still has three blocks, and hence, only two trains.

There is another item to consider as well. The ride time on Blue Streak, station to station, is short enough that the interval is only about 60 seconds, which is about as fast as you can go to load a whole train. Heck, I don't think that ride has been capable of hitting interval since they butchered the train in '96. So if it had a fourth block and a third train, there wouldn't be any gain because it would *always* stack (instead of usually stacking as it does now). Corkscrew is a slightly longer ride, has four blocks on it (at least two, perhaps three brake blocks between the Corkscrew and the station) and actually has about the same interval as Blue Streak.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

was hoping Dave would chime in...:)

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