Update: July 5

Wicked! Just wicked! E x i t English, I'll pay you ten bucks to let me ride that.

What's the ride like? When did you build it? You have to give us all the scoop on this! :)

That looks cool exit.

This is off-topic, but are they using the same crane to do vertical construction for project 2007 and to fix Millennium Force? Because if they're going that route Millennium Force will be down quite a while. I was just wondering if they had another one somewhere.

I'm sure they can rent or buy another crane.

The park already has more than one crane...

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The ride was called Elijah's Chariot. It was sort of an engineering project that my friend John designed in his (I believe) junior year of college.

We basically had 3 weeks to get it up and running for the Heroes Camp at his church. Unfortunately, we never got it going for them the way it should have been :(.

It was just over 11 ft. tall, and I can't remember the length. It was completely designed on paper by my buddy. Even the train was fully articulated (except all we ever got done was 1 car due to time constraints.) with steerable front and rear wheels.

It ended up being sold to a campground, shipped there in bents, and never paid for. From what I'm told, the campground filed for bankruptcy, and getting the thing back is just not in the cards, or the budget.

It's unfortunate, but hey. I have a credit that nobody else will ever have nah nah nah nahhhh nahhh. :)

Nice. Backyard roller coasters: the new IT thing for spoiled rich kids or guy with way too much time or money.

Anyway, it's a cool little coaster.

Actually, since it was built for a church camp, a lot of the materials were highly discounted or donated. I resent that spoiled rich kid comment. Everything I have, I work for myself.

elijah's chariot looks awesome. its too bad you never got to finish it though. :(

Church camp has obviously gotten a heckuva lot cooler since I was last there, some 23 years ago now.

You may have a world record for a coaster with the shortest operating lifetime.

Yeah, it was only up for a week. We never got around to putting lapbars on it, either, so it had just a seatbelt.

The only real problem was that turnaround, and everything else was pretty smooth. Would have been able to fix it once it got to the campground, but well..

It was standing on the 4th of july that year, and no one was there to watch it that night and some punk kids (skateboarders who kept trying to skate on it but we wouldn't let them) smashed the breaker box with a hammer, and tried to light the station on fire. That was pretty much the last day for it, since we had no more power.

We did, however, use my friend's accord and a rope to pull the car to the top of the hill a few times, though. :)

I thought that record was taken by TTD :)

Oh please.....:)