Off-season Activity - List?

OK, so we're all CP nerds or we wouldn't be on this site, especially after the park is closed for the year.

I still check the cams everyday. At least now we have Windseeker cam to keep us occupied. My question is, does anyone have a list of stuff that gets done to put the park "to bed" for the year, after it's closed?

I see the very first day they removed all the trash cans. Aside from that it doesn't look like they have done much. Do they remove coaster trains from the tracks and store them, or do they sit out in the open all winter? What about the canvas covers from the que areas on rides like MF?

Kind of a dorky topic for sure, but I've always wondered what goes on at the park after we leave for the year.

The trains will be removed over the next few weeks, but mostly left to just sit in the elements until they are taken in for off season maintenance.

The picnic pavilions at the front of the park are walled in, and all ride carriages go through there. Everything from the trains on Dragster to the bumper cars to the tubs on the Giant Wheel.

They'll then be stripped down, inspected, parts replaced and finally put back together. Then they'll get shrinkwrapped before being put back out on the midway next to their ride.

Then sometime in early-mid April, they'll start making their way back onto the rides.

Okay Jugga, I know they rebuild they tear trains apart and rebuild them. But, do they stress test the trains in the off-season? I have always had questions about the coaster track itself. Do they magnaflux the track for cracks or do they do something else with it? What does this contraption look like that tests the track? What about the brakes on various coasters are they tore off and rebuilt. The questions that I have could go on and on about maintenace at any theme park.

I'm sure they test the trains and replace the parts they need to replace. I'm guessing you'd need to ask maintenance directly if you wanted a blow by blow list.

I would recommend taking a look back through the OnPoint archive during each off season. Tony and Tyler did a good job each year describing various things the park goes through after closing for the season, especially the first year the blog was started. Yet another reason why I will miss the it.

There is an Onpoint video archive and they go into a building somewhere and you see workers rebuilding a maverick train , they said they strip it down to the frame and rebuild it from the ground-up/the frame.
And i do believe but do not quote me in this but the track i guess get's some kind of test every year to X-Ray to stress test.and i do believe that some of the rides have nitrogen in the posts and there is a gauge that should have a certain reading and if that reading differs then there might be crack in the post.
But that would be really cool if we could see a video of how they do pre season check on the rides with the track and stuff.
Oh as for the brakes i do imagine they change them every year or gauge them like your car brake pads for certain thickness within standards, except for those who use magnets of course!!!

Thanks, Railrunner! The only reason I ask is when I worked for the company I do now, but In California we did destructive and non-destructive testing on tank armorment. I have since been transferred to my new position in Muskegon and we just build motors and trannys for the tanks here. My point is I just found it amazing to watch all that testing while in Cali. My other point is the roller coaster trains and the track have to go through some sort of stress testing in the off-season. Lives are on the line if they don't.

They torque the bolts of the track and supports every year, don't they? You can see the date and year marked on many of the supports while in line for Dragster and Millennium.

RailRunner said:
i do believe that some of the rides have nitrogen in the posts and there is a gauge that should have a certain reading and if that reading differs then there might be crack in the post.

Skyscraper is the only ride I know of that has that. Not to say there aren't others.