Arrow Style Coaster Track Spotted in Southern Ohio

Or if it were an Arrow track (and maybe just a few pieces) then it might be to retrack an old arrow.

Kurt, maybe so. I might have seen the track on pallets and mistaken it for a truck bed.

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Here ya go, MFRULES,

http://sfga_il.tripod.com/index.html

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First of all, B+M outsources their steel fabrication to a company in southern Ohio.  That company (name eludes me now) is not owned by B+M in any way.

When track from Europe is shipped here, it is most likely put in shipping containers.  I doubt that the manufacturers are in love with Hapag-Lloyd, that company probably offers the best price and/or best customer service.  When the track gets here it's cheaper to ship the track via fltabed than by shipping container, so that's why they're shipped by truck the rest of the way to their destination.  But if there are a buch of small parcels in a container, then it usually makes sense not to offload everything, but to just keep it in a nice weatherproof container (delicate or expensice parts--track is pretty durable in the elements).

Yes hershey has anouned roller soaker a suspended water interactive coaster and its not the same.
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I just had my sister look at some pictures of coaster track. I asked her to tell me what she saw. She pointed towards B+M track. I guess this clears up the mystery. I thought it was Arrow track because that is what she said it was. The track was going to head north to Canada. Darn, I was hoping Wyandot Lake was getting a coaster. I keep forgetting what a foolish notion that is.

Darren Mullins

http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/bluestreak

Just a point of info for everyone...Hapag-Lloyd is one of the largest shipping companies in the world when it comes to frieght that is moving on  the seas.  They are centralized in Germany and are almost the primary shipper of most European countries(Hamburg and Bremen if memory serves me-did a paper on them in my International Business class a few years back) to the US.
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MisterX, could that company be AK Steel, my uncle works there and he is always saying about how they make the steel roller coasters.

No, the company that does all of the track for B&M is Southern Ohio Fabrications, Inc.

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http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/2002/wt/construction/picture.cfm?id=77, I think this solves the intanimun container problem. 

Check this out!

One of them at the bottom has a Hapag-Lloyd Container in it.

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ACEerCG, that's the company... "SOFCO" (Sou. Ohio Fabricators) were on the tags for the parts of the SFOG B+M coaster.

As an old project engineer I'd prefer to receive the trains and mechanicals in containers for maximum protection.  I'd prefer to get the track and structurals on flat beds since they are much easier and cheaper to unload, especially when you are trying to not screw up the paint.  Dragging stuff out of a closed top containter is a major pain.  Containers are probably a necessity for ocean shipment though since they reduce shipping costs and keep the salt out.

Just a comment, I think it would have to have been very local because if you're going West through Southern Ohio, 32 is a MUCH better road to take than 52.  Are there any manufacturers within 30 miles of Portsmouth?  If there aren't, the trucker was probably lost IMO.
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Well I do know that B&M tarcks are shipped via flatbeds, because I saw Wildfire tracks heading west on I-275 north of Cincinnati, Ohio on a flatbed 2 years ago.

*** This post was edited by THE BEASTmaster on 1/8/2002. ***

Yeah, i don't know if ALL B&M stuff is carried on flat beds, but on my way to IOA a few years ago i did catch Kraken track on I-75 on a big ole flatbed. 
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B&M Gets there track from Giovanola.
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Damn. Why can ever see track on a flatbed? Makes me want to drive by Southern Ohio Fabrications and take some pictures :)
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Randy Moss,

B&M has Giovanola fabricate their track for their European projects, and SOFCO fabricate their track for American projects.

-seth

I spotted a truck with an Arrow logo on it heading west on Interstate 64 in between Huntington, WV and Charleston, WV at 7:45.  I don't know what is going on.