I am reasonably certain that the new ride will have different restraints. I had heard they even experimented by bolting a non-OTSR seat to one of the old trains.
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So what looked like additions to footers were actually concrete saws. It was easy to miss the gaps around the teeth at the bottom of the saws. With how they're positioned (with a good gap around the outside edges), it looks like they'll be coring out the bolts and re-pouring the middles. I'm surprised that's something they'd do, but I suppose as long as the concrete cures correctly it would be fine. If they weren't planning to reuse them they'd just be ripping them out like they did with some in the back half.
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Jeff said:
Whether or not there is a marketing angle may be unimportant if they simply felt that the ride had reached a point where it was mechanically in need of replacement. We don't really know.
Quoting myself is weird, I know, but I have it on good authority that this was very much an issue of having an end of service life. Apparently track repairs were pretty much a daily occurrence. It sounds like no other B&M ride has even come close to logging the same number of service hours. That's 16 years with no significant down time. Compare that to a ride like Raptor, which has maybe 170 operating days per year, and opening in 1994, still hasn't crossed the 10 year milestone. It does make you wonder about the condition of the ride in another 10 years. Also makes you think about the Busch Tampa rides, though they aren't run nearly as hard as Hulk was.
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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Hulk had run twice as many cycles as Kumba, despite the age difference. The difference in the intervals for both rides is likely night and day, with Hulk always running at least 2 trains (but usually always 3) where Kumba seems to run with 1, maybe 2 much more often. Then add in how fast the crews at Hulk send trains out vs. Kumba. I'd be curious to know the cycle comparison to each of the Dragons as well, since one train op on each side happens often enough.
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What difference does it make? You think they can just let stuff start piling up all winter?
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Jeff said:
What difference does it make? You think they can just let stuff start piling up all winter?
I know you've been in FL for a little while now and forgotten the effects road salt has on bare metal... Same thing happened to my father in-law when he moved south. Yeah I know the pieces are painted but I think I remember seeing the ends where the track butts together is usually bare.
True, it has been really warm so far. But we all know that can change any day.
But then again, what do I know?
It isn't bare metal, it's painted, all sides. The ends use only the primer since there's no point spending money on paint no one will ever see. That stuff was rolling up I-75 all winter in 2013.
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ShaneDenmark said:
I know you've been in FL for a little while now and forgotten the effects road salt has on bare metal... Same thing happened to my father in-law when he moved south. Yeah I know the pieces are painted but I think I remember seeing the ends where the track butts together is usually bare.
True, it has been really warm so far. But we all know that can change any day.
The ends of the rails actually have plates bolted on to protect them during shipment. I remember seeing them on Gatekeeper track on the truck and sitting in the lot at CP.
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