Sort of baffled... help me...
From the Power Tower cam we can see three parallel pieces of track, which one would think to be the transfer tracks for storage of the trains. Well, here is where I'm baffled... the trains are really long, or their will be more than simply three trains, like six. I doubt any of that. On most coasters, multiple trains can be put on one stretch of transfer track, only requiring two parallel tracks rather than three. Raptor is rare, but those paralle tracks are short. As I said the tracks on #16 are really long. So to further explain my baffled mind, I wonder if we will see a multiple station system, not like MF, but more like X-Flight, where there will be more than one boarding platform. Then, when a train is ready, it will be moved forward to a prep position to be put inline with the launch straightaway. That seems very complicated, though. I just don't know what the multiple parallel track sections would be, if they are not switch track
Maybe this guy's post will help you. He even has a drawing of one of your ideas
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Yeah they might be long but you gotta take into consideration the transfer table. Unless they use the curved track piece, then there has has to be a segment as long as the train that moves back and forth to load the train from the circuit to the storage track. When they do that then the footers for that run in line with the track making it look like longer track area when its not.
Giving the webcam another look, the launch track is in line with the far right parallel track, and there are no footers to the right of the launch track. That means the dual platform is pretty much out the window... I just now think that the the parallel tracks are switch tracks.
The only thing that gets me is the positioning of the supposed switch track. Even compared to Xcel, whos tranfer is directly after the brakerun and it goes to the outside of the circuit. And here its closer to the "station" area with no signs of it having anything to do with the track after the break run. It just looks like they will transfer directly onto or right in front of the launchtrack. Which just seems kind of weird to me.
I'm kind of baffled? I'm not trying to say there is going to be more than L:TH:B, but what is the yellow support looking piece by the turn around(on the whats this cam). It looks outside of the oval. Maybe its a piece of equipment. Anyone have an idea? Just curious.
I was wondering that too but it wasn't there this morning. Probably just some of their crap that keeps moving around. I'm expecting to see one time a cardboard cutout of some guy standing there and every minute when it updates, he is standing somewhere else.
lol...
Maybe they should put a cutout of a train around the turn around. Then watch the cam watchers go crazy. (oh, and I consider myself a cam watcher, as I can't stop checking back, even though I know nothing probably has changed)
Who invented the cardboard cutout? (It is a trivia question down here on a Florida radio station. I don't know the answer.)
Ok, I probably need a life now....
But that piece I was talking about has now made its way inside the oval. Beastfreak you were right. I'm still wondering why its there though. Its the same yellow as the tower but at the opposite end of the track. Just wonder why it would be so far from where it belongs, if it does go to the tower.
Ok, my guess, and I preface this by saying, "IT IS ONLY A GUESS" is that it is the first piece of what will be a spike on top of the tower. That spike in my OPINION, will support the highest piece of the top hat from below.
I think that one station would add to the thrill for people waiting in line. I know I love being in the Wicked Twister station and watching it launch, knowing that it will soon be me sitting in that train.
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The only thing it would do is annoy them that the line isn't moving faster. What's thrilling about waiting in line? Just pisses me off to stand in the hot sun around a bunch of smelly hill jacks in tank tops.
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