Number of Trains on Corckscrew

I don't know about the rest of you but every time i ride corckscrew there winds up being on train in the station one behind it and another behind it. I know about the red white and blue color scheme but dont you think they should take a train off so you dont spend 5 minutes waiting to get off

No, I like Red, White, and Blue. It upsets me when the get the colors in the wrong order like Red, Blue, and White.

He isn't saying to put them in a different order, he's saying to remove a train. Like just have Red and Blue with White sitting on the Transfer Track.

waverlyxc said:
I don't know about the rest of you but every time i ride corckscrew there winds up being on train in the station one behind it and another behind it. I know about the red white and blue color scheme but dont you think they should take a train off so you dont spend 5 minutes waiting to get off

I agree. Corkscrew isn't too popular anymore so having three running trains is kind of silly when the ride has a 5 minute wait anyway. It'd be nice to see the mile-long brake area shortened with a helix put in just before it. I always thought Corkscrew lacked a 'finale', and sitting there for 5 minutes waiting to get off irritates me.

Or install decent seat belts that don't cause loading to take three times as long as it used to. Or even better, fix the problem that caused them to be installed in the first place.

I think you guys are correct though in saying they are getting no efficiency benefit out of having the third train on.

Take one of them off and give it to Magnum! ;)

Except you'd have to take those horrendous harnesses off first.

I'd agree. It would save maintenance costs too.

I just don't get why loading takes so long. I mean most people are smart enough to buckle their own belts, and it doesn't seem like it would take ops very long to just give it a quick yank. Would different belts actually make a difference?

When I was there last monday they only had the blue and white trains running... the red one was off to the side. We rode it 3 times and at most had a 30 second wait at the end of the ride for the train in front of us to move out of the loading/unloading area.
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The seat belts are annoying but after being on Vortex, and seeing pictures of GL it looks like all the arrow trains (on looping coasters) are starting to go the same route... I wonder if anyone was has been on a six flags owned arrow ride have seen the same thing..

^ You rode Corkscrew 3 times?

^LOL

If you takeone train off it will not be red white and blue anymore, the 1976 bi-centenial ride.

They only NEED the red train to keep the red, white and blue theme since the track and frame is blue and white.

Didn't Corkscrew used to have metal handlebars on the otsrs?

Josh M. said:
^ You rode Corkscrew 3 times?

My boyfriend doesn't like rollercoasters that much and it's one of the few that he enjoys so we ride it quite often.

carolina_canes_8 said:

My boyfriend doesn't like rollercoasters that much and it's one of the few that he enjoys so we ride it quite often.

I could say something mean here but I choose to respect you and you choice to have that boyfriend.

Anyway I enjoy corkscrew just as much as anyone else just because of the inversions over the midway. I think they should take off the blue train just to keep people from sitting there for to long waiting to unload.