Americana to OPEN! (Unofficial news)

I guess I'll add Americana on my "parks-to-do" list for this summer.  Does anyone know when the park opens this year?
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Bill Yost
http://www.small-business-webs.com/pkizone

Isn't this a perfect time for a park called Americana to open? With the Liberty train and Screechin Eagle, this is going to be a very patriotic season :)
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My fellow Americans; Let's Roll!
www.woodencoaster.com

Id like to add that Americana is a NAD park.   I found it ironic when I went to Camden last year and both their coasters were NAD and their train also.

Coney Cincy was a PTC park with The Carousel, Coasters and also Moonlite Gardens itself being built by PTC.  

Right now Im trying to find out who made Americana's original Carousel.  The ride burnt up in the 80's but the horses were saved  (Not on at time of fire)

Chuck 

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Charles Nungester
Park Jockey :)

I have read somewhere that the Screechin' Eagle has gotten new trains.  I read it had gotten PTC trains in1998.  does anyone know about this?
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Bill Yost
http://www.small-business-webs.com/pkizone

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THE BEASTmaster said:
I have read somewhere that the Screechin' Eagle has gotten new trains.  I read it had gotten PTC trains in1998.  does anyone know about this?
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Bill Yost

Yeah, it got a new/old train two seasons before closing.   The beautiful burgandy train was confiscated to pay for the rebuild of the coaster as he did not pay.

Also there was a beautiful NAD train there at one time,  I rode on it back in the 70's when the ride was called the Space Rocket.

Chuck, who loved that burgandy train 
http://www.small-business-webs.com/pkizone

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Charles Nungester
Park Jockey :)

Charles,

Last time I rode the Screechin Eagle, the NAD train which was burgubdy in it's last season or two was sitting underneath the Giant Slide.  Or I should say the car bodies were sitting underneath the giant slide.  As far as I know they discovered the track guage between PTC trains and NAD trains to be different, so they mounted the car bodies from the old PTC train they bought used from Elitch Gardens onto the NAD bogies.  That way they accomplished their goal of being able to offer Flush-Loading, which the NAD train itself could not provide, due to the lap-bar mechansim blocking one side of the train. However to the coaster the train still fit the track as NAD wheelsets and undercarriage was used..

There was, however, a coaster train that CCI did reposses.  Back in the early-to-mid 1990's somebody had CCI build a new train for the Screechin Eagle.  This train also allowed for the much sought after flush loading, and at the same time they attempted to modernize the train, causing its Coaster Classic status to be revoked.  For a year or so, the Eagle ran with ratcheting lap bars.  This new train is the one CCI repossesed for non-payment, then sold to Big Chief's for Pegasus, and IIRC is now back in CCI's hands unused.  (It really was a sucky train)

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David Bowers
Mayor, Coasterville