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A Salt Lake City TV station reports that Spectrum Manufacturing, in Cache County, Utah, was wiped out by fire. The report says burned roller coaster cars were found in debris.
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if so, THAT REALLY FRIKKEN SUCKS!
on second thought, it sucks regardless of where the cars were going*** This post was edited by Sam A. Marks 3/4/2005 11:40:13 AM ***
Hyrum businesses burned
http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2005/03/04/news/news01.txt
I can only imagine how much CP lost in revenue when they shut down dragster.....
If so, I would imagine that Paramount would have to do some *scrambling* to even get the rides open, regardless of capacity (which would undoubtedly suffer bigtime considering the capacity of each "train")...
The thing that bothers me is that the one article said that workers were looking at the roller coaster trains to see if they could salvage any parts. Perhaps I'm erring on the side of caution, but I wouldn't want to ride a roller coaster if even part of the train had been through a massive fire, much less the whole train. The heat and chemicals could do who knows what to the steel, and it doesn't seem very safe.
Six weeks to find a new manufacturer and build new cars is going to be pretty difficult. Probably, not only the cars were destroyed, but also the tooling for making the parts. You not only have to build new cars, you also have to make new molds, jigs, etc. for making the parts.
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