Railcar spotted, South Basin Parking Lot

My last day I spotted a large red "Sud" railcar in the South Basin lot. It was gone the next morning. Perhaps a sign of things to come?

The day it was spotted was August 10.
I don't have any idea when a new attraction would begin to arrive, but I couldn't think anything else it could be.

Could you explain in more detail what you mean by "Sud" railcar?

I think he is referring to a multi-modal container shipment. Sud is from Hamburg, Germany.

It was just a generic railcar... it said "Sud" on it (owner of the railcar)

I was wondering if he had a better description of the kind of railcar. There are obviously more than just one type of railcar model. Here are just a few.

http://www.michaeltaylor.ca/Ind/sweg.html

If the shipping container contains something for a new attraction I think we can rule out anything B&M.

My God, it better not be another Intamin.

this is what it looked like:

http://www.weavermodels.com/hamburg-sud.jpg *** Edited 8/16/2005 2:17:31 AM UTC by CPPD177***

Ohhhh. That. That's what they bring the internationals over in to work ;)

LOL.

Ouch.

Anyone think that Deamon Drop may be getting placed in this/these container(s), and it may not be for anything new at all? As much as that would bite the bullet it could be a possibility couldn't it?

no.... they say demon drop is done in November... HIGHLY doubtful CP would have a bunch of these containers sitting around for 3 months waiting....

OMGosh...

Everybody! I have had several jobs where we recieved anything and/or everything you can think of in these containers. It could have been anything; Food, Janitorial supplies, Toilet Paper, soap, ANYTHING.

And yes, Very often establishments as big as CP will recieve full truckloads of TP just like this. ALso, just because the Container is labled the way it is, does not mean that it came from there. ALso quite often containers switch from loader to shipper to load to shipper and the final contents and destination are not even related to the original.

Sorry if I sound like a jerk, but to gain any conclusion on a container sighting that was there and gone is pointless.

I saw a guy with a welding torch the other day.. OMG OMG he must be going to work on the new (still rumored) attraction! ;)

Actually they say that it will be available in November. It would be safe to say that if they are planning to put something on that site (I'm not saying they are) they will get Deamon Drop out of the way as soon as possible.

James K, are you saying that Cedar Point is now going to build that tallest toilet paper tower in the world????

;)

Top Thrill Dragster said:
James K, are you saying that Cedar Point is now going to build that tallest toilet paper tower in the world????

;)

Yeah, and they are going to build it next to the world's largest Lemon Chill stand!!!

This is kinda scary. Lately, all of this strange news and almost disappointing to me is occuring. Freeway is gone, Demon Drop is possibly on its way, and now they are building the worlds tallest toilet paper tower;) The only good thing that I've seen so far are the construction markings. http://images.pointxtreme.com/thumbnails.php?album=167

hey there james, sorry, incorrect.

Cedar Point has things called Food Service companies that deliver their orders, they don't just get a huge railcar full of one thing. Further more, they wouldnt let it just sit in a parking lot when it could be unloaded, nice thinking, and since your job has railcars everyday, im SURE every business does, i mean- look at mcdonalds, each store gets railcar deliveries of toilet paper everyday.

I don't think this is anything to really get excited about. It's just a Container. If we were getting something, you would be spotting track.

Shawn the track can be in the containers we dont know. Lets just hope!