Maverick Trains

I think a mock-up made of wood that they pulled through with rope....sort of like what they did with Ka.

Here's a picture of Millennium's pull through.
http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=1172

That MF pull-through is using the train though. I know how that works. But, to me, it doesn't make sense to do a "track alignment" pull-through without the real item that is going to ride the rails. I can see a mocked up piece of plywood for clearance, but not for alignment of the track.

But, I've never built a coaster (unfortunately), so I can't be positive if its true or not. It does surprise me that TnT didn't post pics of it though.

Yeah, Im not saying it for sure happened, I was just told that it did.

The trains could definitely be on site. At least a couple cars from one of the many trains could be there for testing purposes. It was like 2 months ago Gary mentioned they were already under construction and he'd seen photos from which he could tell they were going to look awesome.

I can definitely see the logic behind 2 pull-throughs. You don't want to do your only pull-through after the canyons are built and find out you have to dig everything up again and move a footer 3.5 inches. Likewise, you don't want your only pull-through to happen before the canyons are scenery are in place and miss the fact that my sasquatchian arms can hit the southern wall of canyon number #2, breaking my arm and earning CP an out-of-court settlement.

It said in the last update in the diary entry that the trains are on site but, we won't be seeing pictures for another couple weeks or so.

Should be cool to see pictures of them

Funny, I remember Gary saying "days" not "weeks"........

Well, there are "days" in "weeks"... :)

Whaaaaaa? Since when? :o

Noooooo, it's not true! Say it's not sooo!! >_<

Well ok thats true but he also said "few". "Few" is somewhere around 3-6 days. So if it ends up being 7 days or even 14 days then he's a liar and should have said a few weeks.

Jeeze, when are they going to get it right!!!:)

*** Edited 11/29/2006 3:58:39 AM UTC by TTD 120mph***

few:
1. Not many but more than one.

:)

For those of you who are so anxious so see pictures of the trains, there is now a teaser picture in the latest OnPoint blog.

http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/fun/blog/index.cfm

Cool pic :)

Those are sweet.

Intamin really knows how to make attractive looking trains. TTD's train/seats are very cool looking as well.

Wonder if that's the brass or gold train?

Very nice from that picture. Hope I will still think the same when we see the whole train.

I think that's the gold train Tim.

Looks like they made the OTSR's a little thicker - that should be nice - those things were almost sharp on stormrunner and kingda ka.

Oh I hadn't noticed that. Good call. I'm praying for silky smooth and no headbanging. :)