Silverwood Theme park

Hi. my name is Alex i live in northern idaho and i am a rides operator at a theme park over here. i just wanted to give you all an idea about what life at silverwood is like...
well first off we have 3 "big" coasters.
we have 2 woodies
1 is called timber terror, its an out and back with a really fn helix at the end. its rated in the top ten for air time and is a fun coaster.
the other is tremors. it is a 101 foot drop coaster that goes through four undergrond tunnels (world record holder). it is consistently rated as the top wooden rollercoaster in the US.
Then we have the corkscrew. the first modern coaster to go upside down. it was built originally for knotts berry farm. we bought it from them in the early nineties.
the record day at silverwood is 10,300 people. we have 20 rides and a waterpark.
ok so the life of a rides operator over here. well we go to 3 different rides everyday. we get 2 half hour breaks and all rides operators work from when the park opens in the morning to when it closes.
we dont have computer controls for any rides or the coasters. most rides have a start button and a stopwatch. we have a few rides that we have to balance like our big eli wheel has to be balnced side to side or else when you want to stop it you have to get on the break lever with all your weight to make it stop.
our coasters are run by basically 2 buttons a dispatch button and a break run button. so how this works is we open the gates let overyone on then push the button to close the lap bars. when they are closed we check to make sure seatbelts and lapbars are closed then we push the dispatch button which opens the air breaks. then we walk over to the edge of the station and watch the train go up the lift hill. if somebody were to stand up or whatever we have a big red e-stop button to push. then when the train gets to the break run we use the other button. pushing the button slowly releases the trim breaks and by eye we feather the breaks as the coaster comes in trying to slow it down but not stop it. then we slowly let it come back to the station and we feather the dispatch breaks and try to stop it as close to the little orange line as we can make it.
a coasters training takes 2 hours and any operator can be trained on them. and most of them are.
we probably sound primitive compared to all of your computer equipment. but working our rides are and art and to be good at them takes alot of practice. i love working here and computers would make life to easy and boring.

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