Ok, forgive me if this is obvious but this little detail has always bugged me.
The track on the drop side of the lift hill has extensions jutting our from the right side (if you are the train) of the track under every crosstie. It looks like it would be to support a platform or stairs as on the ascent but why are they on the drop?
*** This post was edited by millrace on 4/5/2000. ***
There probably there so they can fix anything on the drop.It woud be pretty dangrous if there was some thing wrong on the drop!!
That doesn't make sense to me. The rest of the coaster doesn't have them and and I never saw supports like that on any other steel coaster.
On a slightly related note. I've noticed that wood coasters generally have a walkway running the length of the coaster (I assume that's because wooden tracks need constant maintenance) and steel coasters generally do not. Gemini has a steel track and a wood structure and it does have the walkway. The steel track can't be as high-maintenance has a wood track. Does the wood structure need easy access?
On a wood coaster they need too oil and hammer the track.On a steel coater they only need to check break swithes and the car.So on Magnum, when they test it they can see if anything is wrong with the car by listening,while its going down the track.
Those "things" are if CP wants to build stairs or something going down. If you look the stairs on the side of the lift is held up by those "things".
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Andrew
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Yeah, so why would CP want to build stairs or something going down? In case a train stalls going down the slope ;)