TR 8/30

Trip #45,

1902 down only 98 more to go.  I got 13 laps in tonight, most of them with Joe E.  We should have gotten more in but they were down for about 45mins total for the last two hours becsue of bad wheels.

The ride was running great, all three trains, but they had some serious problems with the devil train.  I rode in car five and one of the road wheels was bad, the ride wasn't rough but it was noticeable.  Then on my next ride I rode the devil train again in 23.  This time the second the train was cleared and started to roll out of the station I could feel the hear a bad wheel under me.  The ride was very rough and the train was vibrating all the way up the lift.  It was so bad and loud that when the train went into the tunnel is sounded like a machine gun was going off inside the tunnels. 

I got off the ride and I told Frank and he said he knew about the bad wheel in the red train, but he was refering to the one in car 5.  So I ran around and I got the red train again and this time Joe was waiting for 23, so I hopped in line with him.  This time the ride was worse and we were both praying that the what was left of the wheels would just fall off.  So return to the station and the ride goes down so they can fix the wheels.  The problem is that they fix the wheel in car five and then don't fix the really bad wheel in car 2.  They go back up again about 10 minutes later and go back down again 20 minutes later once they realized they forgot to replace the wheel in car 2.  They kept the red train on the readies for 30 minutes instead of transfering it off.  The ride didn't go back up until 8:10, I just want to thank Andy and the rest of the crew for keeping the ride up a few minutes to let everyone on platform ride, and be able ro run around and get one last ride. 

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daniel j. haverlock
Magnum: 637/1902
"I hate it when they don't race Mean Streak"

Yeah, that ride was rougher than Mean Streak, racing or not ;). That magnum Crew was very nice tonight, and not just to us.

I would have gone for some Arby's, but seeing as how I already had 2 Roast Beef Sandwich's in my car....
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2001 Force Laps -129 
2001 Magnum Laps-273
6/11/01 Gemini Laps- 100

So Dan, when you hit 2k are you going to do something special?
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Next trip to CP on August 25th - 26th!

Yeah that was nice of them to keep it running. I got to enterence just as they went down. We stood there for 10 or 15 minutes. When they reopened the line we all ran up to the platform where Dan and Joe happened to be. I wasn't surprised! I rode and had a nice ride.
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2000 MF LAPS: 117
2001 MF LAPS: 146
Gemini 100: 100