How does DT track work

Now DT has breaks, If the track is not exactly a track then how do they break it. Also how do they get the car straight at the end. I mean if its free to do whatever how do they get it ready for the stair track?

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Number 1 And Only Cedar Point.

I think they use a "crowd" system at the end, were the track narrows and forces the train into a narrow section. At least that is how EBP's Flying Turns worked. Intamin probably came up with a better way though.




*** This post was edited by Joe E. on 3/21/2001. ***

Joe E. is right about the end. It was a bobsled run and still is and it is free to do what it wants, then the end narrows and hits a brake run of some type. It runs on wheels.

RIDE THE WOODEN TERROR! THE MEAN STREAK!

I didn't know that they 'break" rides... I know they use brakes though...

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MF 2000 - 269 laps

MF 2001 - ???????

Disaster has brakes that are rubber pads on a lever/bar that lifts up to catch the bottom of the shuttles to apply the friction that stops them. The wheels for the shuttles are on the corners (obviously) and the brake pads are only about 6" wide, so they do not interfere. To get the shuttle to a brake, the track straightens out and the shuttle naturally falls to the center, thus can be caught by the brake - including the brakes and running rails at the end of the ride.

Remember, even though the shuttles are free to do what they want throughout the track, there really isn't going to be that much variation. If you look for old pictures of Avalanche Run (you can see one on my website under the "Disaster Transport" coaster page) you'll see streaks in the trough - that's where the wheels have worn off the paint. It really isn't that hard to get it to go to the right part of the trough for braking - the trough isn't that big.

'97 Disaster Crew
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Twelve feet in diameter if I remember correctly. Anyway, if you look closely at the places on that track where there are brakes, there are guide rails that extend down from the edge of the trough down to the track leading through the brakes. While the track profile will cause the car to self-center and catch the angle-iron track in the station and at the block brakes, just as CrystalKat said, the rails will GUARANTEE that the car centers up on the brakes.

Note also that in addition to friction brakes, Disaster Transport also has advancing wheels. On the underside of each car is a textured steel plate which is the braking surface and the advancing-wheel surface. The advancing wheels are, in some areas, used exclusively as brakes. 'Kat, are there friction brakes at the block brakes, or just the advancing wheel brakes?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

The friction brakes are at the blocks, both before and after the satellite and in Alaska. The advancing wheels are there as well, but when the friction brakes kick in the wheels are turned off immediately; they will be used to restart the shuttle when the brakes drop. That's why the shuttle takes off kind of suddenly after a setup. The advancing wheels alone are used in the stations and part of the final brake run before the unload platform. :)

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RideMan,

I seem to remember you saying that the Advancing blocks can also be used to propel the car.

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2001 park line up:

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(other parks N/A as of March 1) *** This post was edited by Magnum is sinking! on 3/23/2001. ***