Yellow Train Back

Yellow train is on the tracks and riding today with people...But they took another train off for some reason. guess they cant do 6 train operation yet. Now i hope they put the whole package (Tires, Engine, Spoiler) back on the trains.

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I wish they could do 6 trains. The line today fills up almost the whole queue that the ride has.

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2003 Statistics
Top Thrill Dragster: 3
Millennium Force: 13
Wicked Twister: 7

Why is everyone worried about the tires,engine, and spoiler? I think if the trains work more efficiently without them CP should eliminate them and think of something else, like mabe a nother car

jwhoogh:

The engine, tires and spoiler complete the theaming of this ride. Without them the trains look too plain. Remember, the trains are supposed to represent Top Fuel Dragsters.

I'm sure everythng will be put back on just as soon as it can be safely done.

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2003 CP trips: 1
TTD: 2
MF: 2
WT: 2

I was out there Sunday evening around 6 and the yellow train was sitting on the transfer track. By the way, my son was on the platform last Thursday for over five hours after TTD was shut down around noon and watched the maintenance crew cut a bunch of pieces off the yellow train and then weld some back on. He also said one of the ride ops told him that the engines and tires are gone for good. Too much of a liability with pieces falling off. He was told that the two-seat fifth car was going to be replaced with a four-seater - either a new car or an add-on piece for the existing cars. My guess would be a new car because the existing ones seem too short to put two seats behind the two that are there now unless they sit a lot higher and hang off the back.

Rumors, rumors, rumors. What would we do without them?

I have heard also the the tires are gone for good. I hope that's wrong. You can't tell me that there is no way to redesign the engine and tires so they stay on. I just don't want to see all the theming gone after it starts to break down. I understand the liability issue, but I still think after building a 420FT. ride to come back and say we can't keep tires on a train is pretty lame. I would think somehow someway that technology exists....so do it.

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I was told by an op yesterday (we all know how reliable they are for info:-P ) that top thrill dragster will be certified to run all 6 trains today. I don't think he made it up, but i'll believe it when i see it, by the way, i didn't ask, he volunteered this info when i asked if the yellow (gold) train had been runing
*** This post was edited by liebevision 6/2/2003 10:30:50 AM ***
*** This post was edited by liebevision 6/2/2003 10:36:41 AM ***

That's odd. I could have sworn I saw gold running and a different train on transfers on Sunday mid-day. However, it was a kids day (no coasters for me) so I didn't pay very close attention.

On the other hand, my four year old daughter got her first scrambler (she calls it the "egg beater") ride, and I got to ride with her, which more than makes up for any missed coaster rides.
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So, from what some have posted here, the park decides to include some great themes into this ride, and already are taking it down? Where have I seen this before?? *cough* DT *cough*
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"What time does the 10 pm laser show start?"

gold train WAS running part of the day sunday

Yes, the gold train was running yesterday, but only until 11:30 or so. I was in the station when they made the announcement that they were going to be switching trains. 15 minutes later the other train(I don't remember which one it was) was back on in place of the gold one.

The first test with the replacement train was quite fun to watch. It teetered at the top for at least 4 or 5 seconds and then finally made it over.

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America's Rockin' Roller Coast

I was there today and was on the green train and the gold was behind us, we got into launch position, engine reving, then they stopped, the train moved back i was like yay we are going! then we rolled back further, then back into the station and then they took off the gold train where it sat the rest of the time i was there. I wonder why they don't run all six trains!

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Rollercoasters have proven to cause brain damage in stupid politicians.

trips to CP:6 Dragster:2 MFer:6 Magnum: 13 Running with the bulls for a 15 minutes dragster wait, Must be June!

This morning, they opened Dragster with six-train operation. When they hit interval it worked out alright, but there still seemed to be a lot of stacking. The ride went down while in line, but they got it back up in about 40 minutes. When returned later, they had removed the green train and were back to five-train operation where they were pumping them through. The first train of each two-train segment never had time to sit and wait for the launch, it just went up and launched. Great job today TTD Ride Ops!

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Hooper said:
I have heard also the the tires are gone for good. I hope that's wrong. You can't tell me that there is no way to redesign the engine and tires so they stay on. I just don't want to see all the theming gone after it starts to break down. I understand the liability issue, but I still think after building a 420FT. ride to come back and say we can't keep tires on a train is pretty lame. I would think somehow someway that technology exists....so do it.

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There is a way to redesign it. I explained a theory on why that tire fell off and how they can fix them in another topic, which seems to have died down, so I'll repeat it here for those who may have missed it:

Anyone who's been on the ride (or has seen the POV video) knows that there is a LOT of vibration going through the train during the launch. Since they used very heavy tires mounted on a thin axle, chances are the vibrations transfered to the tires, causing them to "wobble" back and fourth, and in the process, "bending" the axle back and fourth over and over where the tire connects to it. Now, when metal is bent over and over in the same spot enough times, it will fatigue, eventually causing it to break, which I surmise is what happened with the axle when the tire fell off. Even if they replace the real tires with lighter fiberglass ones, there's still a chance it could happen, but much later. The only way they can keep this incident from happening again is to mount the tires (or fiberglass ones) on a thicker, tubular axle, or mount them on several "axles" arranged in a circle around the wheel rim. Either solution would prevent the tire from wobbling and causing the connections to fatigue and break off.

Surely they would have to had considered such options before deciding to NEVER put them back on.
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*** This post was edited by Kevin Lehman 6/4/2003 4:18:34 AM ***

It almost seems as if the Yellow train is off the transfer track and running today? This statement is only from viewing the web cam.

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"Have you seen my cheese?"

I can't see the color of the train but there is one on the transfer track. yellow, white, orange train, it doesn't matter i just hope they decide if 6 train operation is gonna happen.

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Ed Markey is my anti-drug.
Rollercoasters have proven to cause brain damage in stupid politicians.

trips to CP:6 Dragster:2 MFer:6 Magnum: 13 Running with the bulls for a 15 minutes dragster wait, Must be June!

Yeah, I see it now. My Bad.

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"Have you seen my cheese?"

Its all good, just dissapointing when you get to the park and think hey they are going to do 6 train operation get in the launch position and then go back to the station and they take one off, oh well 5 train operation seem to be working nicely.

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Ed Markey is my anti-drug.
Rollercoasters have proven to cause brain damage in stupid politicians.

trips to CP:6 Dragster:2 MFer:6 Magnum: 13 Running with the bulls for a 15 minutes dragster wait, Must be June!

5 train-op WAS working very nicely on Monday. It seems like they fixed the "ghost train" programming and the trains were constantly moving forward, two at a time in to the station and launching together.

Yeah i noticed that aswell.

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Ed Markey is my anti-drug.
Rollercoasters have proven to cause brain damage in stupid politicians.

trips to CP:6 Dragster:2 MFer:6 Magnum: 13 Running with the bulls for a 15 minutes dragster wait, Must be June!