July 29 Update

I think that THIS picture just about confirms that the station will be near the walkway (where the blue cases are in this pic), go down a little and turn into the lift hill, which will be the other long row of footers we've seen in the middle of the site:

http://pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4604

I think it stills leaves room for a duel-load station though as the decline in footers still seems to the side of at least one row of them.

I'm also excited to start seeing taller and thicker supports, not just little turns anymore.

That area looks very confusing right now. It looks like they are creating more then that down there. It almost looks like they are trying to create a pond underneath the station.

One thing is for sure... those piles of dirt are new :) *** Edited 7/30/2006 6:11:21 PM UTC by BGRooDoG***

What the hell is this?

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=502

Little Leslie said:
What the hell is this?

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=502

A Support ;)

By the looks of it it's Tan, and made by Intamin.

Sorry couldnt help myself :)

I'm getting tired of everyone getting excited about piles of dirt.

Every time they start on new footers, they have to dig a hole. Therefore they have piles of dirt. A lot of dirt was displaced when they started on this:

http://pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4604

Just like when they started these footers:

http://www.pointbuzz.com/gallery.aspx?i=4587

They dug up a lot of dirt and it looked like this:

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=3989

Just because you see a few piles of dirt, doesn't mean they are putting in a pond.
*** Edited 7/30/2006 6:29:53 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***

I think BGRooDoG was kinda of being sarcastic when he said that the piles of dirt were new. He was just making a little joke at how everyone does get excited over small, meaningless stuff. No need to be mean and bring him down. It was just a joke!

How much do you think each of those footers weigh? They look really heavy!

I'm not being mean. I'm just stating facts. BGRooDog was not the first person to mention the idea of a pond.

The intent of a person posting on a forum is expressed with puncuation or capitolization. If I wanted to be mean I would have typed in caps or used an exclamation point like you did.

When people want to be sarcastic they use a winking smiley like this ;) Otherwise how are people ever suposed to know when your serious or not.

Since he didn't, I could only conclude BGRooDoG was serious.

And perhaps if he wasn't you could let him respond instead of making assumptions and speaking for him.

Jason Hammond said:
The intent of a person posting on a forum is expressed with puncuation or capitolization.

Cedar Fair should be "capitolizing," we should be "capitalizing..." ;)

^ oops. :)

To awnser Prisilica309's question, i found this on google:

Concrete, Asphalt 140 pounds/cubic foot
Concrete, Gravel 150 pounds/cubic foot
Concrete, Limestone w/Portland 148 pounds/cubic foot
Cement, Portland 94 pounds/cubic foot
Cement, mortar 135 pounds/cubic foot
Cement, slurry 90 pounds/cubic foot
*** Edited 7/30/2006 7:11:12 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***

I'm sorry, I mean't the tan supports...not footers. I was curious if the workers could just lift some of the smaller ones onto the footers. I'm sure they need a crane for the taller ones though.

No, they can't just lift any of them.

Jason Hammond said:
Oh by the way, while at the staging area, I tried counting the pieces of track. I think there's about 84 pieces on site. And although I didn't bring my tape measure, I did pace off a piece of track that was sitting next to the fence. Although it's not exactly accurate, I do it quite a bit. I'm in construction. The track pieces are about 30' long.

84 pieces x 30' = 2520' of track (so far)

this could be all the track used..... look at these lengths:

http://www.rcdb.com/id1646.htm

http://www.rcdb.com/id2787.htm

http://www.rcdb.com/id3245.htm

http://www.rcdb.com/id2498.htm

http://www.rcdb.com/id3430.htm

http://www.rcdb.com/id1412.htm

thats if his calculations are correct...that might be the majority,if not all, the track

Prisilica309 said:
I'm sorry, I mean't the tan supports...not footers. I was curious if the workers could just lift some of the smaller ones onto the footers. I'm sure they need a crane for the taller ones though.

How heavy do you think these supports are??

I didn't think they could lift any of them...but hey I thought I would ask.

bholcomb said:
Hooray! Proxy sensor mounts...

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4626

Come on Ben, if you're going to "Hooray!" about something in that picture, at least make it for the transfer track locking cylinder mounts ;)

ExitCleveland Guitar said:

thats if his calculations are correct...that might be the majority,if not all, the track

The track there is for like 10 supports, so there is more track coming.

That's gonna hurt!

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4632

I still say Aquatrax, it is somrthing alot of peeps would come running to see it.

oppsies, i meant to say "many peeps would want to see it because it is something new in the states.
*** Edited 7/30/2006 8:38:50 PM UTC by DragonFire***