Top Thrill Dragster's trains

Not to be obsessed but I just ckecked the webcam and one of the trains is missing.
And ForgottenEE, how can you tell that the catch car is not on? What if it is already on. I mean there might be a chance if you manage to see it on the webcam. But how do YOU know?
*** Edited 4/9/2005 6:57:14 PM UTC by TTD 120mph***

It might be on, but as of March 31 it wasnt. You can tell because there is no launch cable on the track.

Can't tell from the webcam. :)

I was refering to Walt's photos.

Sorry :) In that case your right. I didnt know you were refering to something about that picture.

Well one of the other trains probably needs work done to it so that sixth train might still be in a shed or something.

From the webcam, it appears that 5 are on the transfer, and 1 is in the station.

*shrug*

Nothing's in the station. :P

OMFG, a wheel moved! ;)

Hey I think a bird landed on the track. Alert the press.

Sort of like what they did last year at the beginning of the year with the red train. I cant remember exactly but I think it had something to do with CP wanting to wait to use it after capacity reached a certain level or something. Somebody else tell the reason it cause I can't remember. :P

I think that is right. They are adding the 6th train to the transfer track on the cam right now.

yeah i think their using this year as a maintence year for dragster...

The 6th train isn't really needed, but it works as a very good backup if something is wrong one of the other five. TTD's capacity with 4 sucks, 5 is the only way it can cycle people through the line effectivly. As for last year, I don't really know.

How fast can 6 trains get people through?

Stating that the ride is more efficient with five trains than with six is making an assumption that they did not make significant changes to either the ride controls or to the blocking structure of the ride.

That may be a safe assumption, but in reality we don't know what all they did this winter...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Suprisingly, I appear to be the first one posting that all 6 trains are on the storage track.

Yeah, but they've all been on the transfer for about 2 weeks now so you could say that almost everybody knows.

heh, I missed the post on the 21st. Just got back into town after leaving last Wednesday :P sorry :P