Re: Hades got stuck?
The fact that there are anti-rollback strips at that point on the ride is meaningful.
Quite often with modern woodies, anti-rollbacks would be placed during ride construction in the same sorts of places where you find them on older rides. But the new-generation physics-defying rides out of Cincinnati that we've become accustomed to usually end up running so fast that the anti-rollbacks are unnecessary, and get removed to reduce wear on the safety dogs. When this happens, you'll usually see a narrow wood strip in the center of the track where the anti-rollbacks used to be.
Most steel coasters do not use mid-course anti-rollbacks. The notable exception to that rule is any portable coaster, especially those from Schwarzkopf. Heck, the Wildcat has a block brake on a section of track that runs uphill, so an anti rollback there is kind of necessary...
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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