MS derailed?

I heard a rumor about mean streak derailing on the lift hill on Saturday the twenty-second, can anyone verify?

Well, it was evacuated, and sitting at the bottom of the lift all afternoon, so I suppose it is possible, but likely not probable.

I think they might have had some kind of lift problem with Iron Dragon too. When I left Millennium Force at about midnight, they had a crane backed into the lift.

*** Edited 7/24/2006 2:36:09 AM UTC by DBCP***

Was it up and running today? (sunday)

It was in such shock that it was a top 10 wooden coaster, it just nearly crapped itself, it sounds like.

It just broke the chain dog. *** Edited 7/24/2006 8:25:34 PM UTC by CoasterXtreme72***

If it was the chain dog then the train most likely turned into the lift and it didn't catch the train so it just stopped there.

Derailing is a much more serious thing, but that's a very hard thing for a coaster to do.

It was stopped further up than if it had just rolled to the lift. It looked like it had made it a little ways up and then stopped (/chaindog broke).

*** Edited 7/24/2006 2:27:46 AM UTC by DBCP***

i was at the park the 17th and 18th... went on it both days and at the bottom before the lift hill it fell like my seat jumped up and fell back into place. i never remembered it doing that.

No, it's always done that a little bit. That's just the train slowing down, then catching onto the chain, then being pulled up to speed.

i always rememberd a little jerk but this one was huge i put my arms down b/c it was so big... maybe it was just where i was sitting?

When I went to the park on 7-18, I thought that MS was running smoother than I had remembered it running in 2000. The one thing that I especially noticed was the lack of the squeak that the ride used to make on all of the turns.

milleniumforcerocks said:
i always rememberd a little jerk but this one was huge i put my arms down b/c it was so big... maybe it was just where i was sitting?

Arms up at the bottom of the lift? That has always intrigued me... Whatever floats your boat!

It’s happened to me a few times when I’ve sat towards the front of the train (what ever car the dog is on up there) and for whatever reason the cars load wheels weren’t ridding on the track. I’m guessing the dog didn’t grab the chain right and the car was propped up off the load wheel. It then settled and slammed back down pretty hard.

That little jump and slam happens every once in a while on every PTC coaster. I think sometimes the chain dog tries to engage right between links, and then you feel it go over the top down to the next link.

I rode on the...18th and it was undoubtedly the bumpiest ride It had ever given me. it was my brother's first time on it and he was afriad it was going to bounce off the track.

Every time I ride MS I usually feel the main tractor wheels leave the track twice. It's usually once at the bottom (attributed to what Pete said), and then about halfway up the lift after you go under the turn. I've had the train "skip" as many as five times up the lift. It seems to be a normal occurence and nothing to worry about, though sometimes the "skips" can be a bit startling.

Whic train was it? MS was runnign when I got to the park at 10:30. I rode it some time before noon and now that I think of it the connection to the left chain seemed to go much smoother.

The ride itself was good too!

It was the green train.

Oh, that pesky green train always causing them problems.

Standard configuration for a PTC train puts two anti-rollback dogs on each car, and a chain clutch on each car EXCEPT the lead car. The two anti-rollbacks and the chain clutch are all mounted on the same cast bracket and all share a common axle. The bracket is usually mounted at the rear of the car.

I don't know whether Mean Streak follows that pattern or not.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.