MF Control Center?
Last night I saw on TV on Discovery Channel's Behind SFMM show, and they went into Riddler's Revenge control room, and it looked complicated! Does anyone know if/where MF has a control room?
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Brian Z.
Hometown parks: Kennywood, Cedar Point!
Feel the Force NOW!!
No it doesn't. Just a very large board full of buttons and lights. Disaster Transport has a somewhat complicated system.
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Can the ride ops detect if someone has unfastened their seatbelt after they have left the station?
You know like going up the lift hill and maybe force the situation to be corrected.
I know, who would do such a thing? But then again
didn't W.C.Fields say that a sucker was born every minute?
You know like going up the lift hill and maybe force the situation to be corrected.
I know, who would do such a thing? But then again
didn't W.C.Fields say that a sucker was born every minute?
The reason that Riddler's Revenge looks so complicated is that it's a stand up coaster. So there are all sorts of seat related controls.
No, an open seat belt can't be detected.
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 25
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 25
...and I guarantee you that there is an equipment room beneath the platform someplace with the relays, contactors and PLCs. Look for an air conditioner...CP's SOP in recent years has been to put the equipment room beneath the platform, and to install air conditioning in the equipment room. The exception is Blue Streak, where the equipment room is apparently inside the Pirate Ride building.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
There's a fairly large room on the ground, bay-side of the platform that I suspect is your "rack room."
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 25
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 25
Dave, what did they do when PR was still in operation?
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Dispatch Master, This is Transport one! I'm losing control, I'm losing control!
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Dispatch Master, This is Transport one! I'm losing control, I'm losing control!
You mean for Blue Streak's controls? The PLC cabinet doesn't have to take up a lot of room; and that building is a lot bigger than what the Pirate Ride needed...if you ride Blue Streak, notice on the back side of the building that the Park Services department is housed in there as well. They probably just had to give up a bit of closet space when the PLCs were installed for the 1994 season. Prior to '94, I think the air compressor for the trim brake and all the relay controls were either under or on the platform. Back when the two station braked were controlled by big wooden levers.......!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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