Trains moving faster?

It seems that the trains were moving much much faster between and inside the stations this weekend.

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Dan Haverlock
TTD Rollbacks 2 For 59
"get a job man!"

I think your right Dan. I also noticed that today inside the station. I didn't time the launch intervals but they seemed very quick today.

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No ! They do not have Freeway for Dragster.

Kudos to the crew today. they Rocked.. I swear it seemed to be launching every 40 seconds most of my visit. Wow.. It is not quite as fun in the cold though.. Can we say Windchill?

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TTD rides =31
Time spent waiting for those rides= 47.5 hours.
MF=84

The ride and crew really were working nicely on Sunday. I don't think the ride was down the entire day.

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Bob M.

About 1 or 2 p.m. it was about a minute interval but then the interval time did go down and got faster throughout the day it seemed.
Way to go Dragster Crew!

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2003 Stats: Top Thrill Dragster: 16
Magnum XL-200: 63
35 trips to the Point

*** This post was edited by fat chris 10/6/2003 2:55:35 PM ***

The small line that was there really did move, on one of my rides I made it through the entire last queue block in a little over 5 minutes. They're really getting this thing running smooth, which is a great sign for next year....it'll practically be a new ride without all of the downtime.

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HW 2K3: 3

I only left the ride for about an hour to eat at the Midway Market. They did go down once when they had the rollback.

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Dan Haverlock
TTD Rollbacks 2 For 59
"get a job man!"

Dan, you're right, the trains are moving much faster and closer together now. But you'll only see that when the drive-wheels are dry and management has OK'd the use of that mode.

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Brent Haley
Gemini Crew '02
Dragster Crew '03

Ha! When I clicked on this topic I thought that you would be talking about the launch getting faster!

Once I did,this might seem weird but, I did see a train go 134!!! We only when 125 mph! :(

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"Welcome back riders, how was your ride?"

It seems the mechanics of the ride are improving, the ops are less worry-some about waiting to launch etc.

They are moving faster, i noticed that too.

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Cedar Point Was Awesome This Weekend
Look Me Up On Neopets: cedarpointfan

Well, I meant the operations as the system itself, but you can include the people.

How many trains are they operating? Five or all six?

twister2 said:"Once I did,this might seem weird but, I did see a train go 134!!!"

The people in that train must have had some serious ejector air. Was it a windy day so that they wanted to make sure it made it over? Remember how they said that at 120 it rolls back, 121-122 makes it over and 123 they get a too fast warning. So do you think the speedometer was wrong, did it look like the train was going 134?

Whel we where standing right next to it right before they let people join the q. I still remember the date, July 9th around,for some reason I want to say 7:35.

I've seen trains go over 123 before and nothing really went wrong.

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"Welcome back riders, how was your ride?"

Didnt we already establish ( in an earlier forum) that the speedometer is only a prop and doesnt really show the accurate speed of the ride?

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TTD: 6 (Rollbacks seen: 24)
MF: 20
WT: 9

Actually MrFat, it is accurate. When it says 123, the train really did go 123.

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Brent Haley
Gemini Crew '02
Dragster Crew '03

I timed the intervel on friday and got a best intervel of 52 seconds. That equates to 1246 PPH.

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Eddy the retard is awesome.

V Dogg said:
How many trains are they operating? Five or all six?

Guess I must quote myself.

Look on top of the hydraulic building, there's a gun there.

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2003 Super Screw Crew