Corkscrew crash

Corkscrew has been running only 2 trains for quite some time. IIRC, each train takes an off-year every 3 years.

When I saw this topic, I felt my heart drop thinking that it just had an accident.

RIght I started pulling up Sandusky Register and checking the current crew fb page and stuff lmao...

I was about to be so upset, especially given the Smiler accident.

Picture of the accident

That link didn't load a picture, just blank space where the image should be. I tried the direct image URL and got it to load. I'll just put it below for convenience.

Odd. The link works just fine for me yet I can't get the image to post on Pointbuzz like you did.

That's strange, now your link works right. It was taking me to a totally different page last time. But to post the picture, click the image button on the toolbar, which is the button on the far right and then put in the URL for the image.

I recall vividly the time that I got Corkscrew shut down in 1996. It was the last Wednesday in June, 1996. I was chaperoning a church youth group trip, and was sitting under Corkscrew's main turn by Sky Ride, meeting kids for the mid-afternoon check-in. Having been absolutely enthralled with watching Corkscrew work it's magic ever since I was a small child, I was well tuned to what was, and what was not, a normal sound. Every time a train would pass overhead I would hear a strange rhythmic hammering noise. A noise that I immediately knew was drastically out of place. So I went about looking for the source, and lo and behold, upon further inspection I found that one of the running rails was broken on the trailing side of one of the uprights that connects the track spine to the running rails. Every time a train passed over, the weight from each individual wheel assembly would push the rail down, then between wheel sets it would spring back into place, hence the rhythmic hammering noise. A loud bang, bang, bang noise, repeated seven times in very rapid succession. Anyway, I flagged down the first employee I saw, a CP&LE employee returning from lunch, and pointed the problem out to him. Within minutes of him rapidly walking off, Corkscrew was shut down for the remainder of the afternoon.

To post an image:

I don't have the toolbar.

Either your browser is self-identifying as mobile, or your setting for "force plain textbox" is set in edit your profile.