PKIEMPSOB said:
Ive been sent to FOF a few times and it was daunting to say the least. Comming from a ride that 3 people can do it quickly to a ride where you need atleast 5 to do a quick job. Its an odd one. They ARE the same trains too!
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Son of beast/top gun crew 2001 and 2002
Well one reason we need six people on our ride is we have to stations, and our munchkin is required unlike on SOB, also your restraints are pretty much self explatory, and you dont have people pulling the seatbelt through the seat behind, or clipping it to their belt.
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D.o.t. Crew 2000
Flight of Fear/Wave Swinger crew 2001-2002
Charles Nungester said:
FOF, They are not new trains dude, Jeff told me that they had just got the third one back a week prior to The Golden Ticket awards day. The did not however put it into rotation for a few weeks after that, Then they retrofited the Belt from a clip to a seatbelt thing. At one point in time one train had the hooks and the other had the belt buckle.
Chuck, who says what you are seeing over in the Monorail area is the Fourth train which is used for peices if needed.
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Charles Nungester
167 coasters and hopes to be over 200 by the end of 2002
Train 3 was delivered to the ride on July 25 2001and already had the seat belts in them instead of the hooks(the other trains received the seatbelts prior to this) train 3 was actually added to the ride on september 21, 2001, what i'm trying to say is that train 3 never had the clips, it had the seatbelt the whole time.
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D.o.t. Crew 2000
Flight of Fear/Wave Swinger crew 2001-2002
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Son of beast/top gun crew 2001 and 2002
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On the FOF issue, isnt there a brake section between the two stations on the turn around. I've seen a train wait there before and you can hear it letting off when the train is launched. Is there a brake section there?
On the FOF issue, there is a set of brakes between th 2 station, if FOF were to run three train the train positions would be prior to launch Load station, waiting brakes(between the 2 stations), and unload. so that would be how we could run three trains and not have to worry about the mid course block brakes
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D.o.t. Crew 2000
Flight of Fear/Wave Swinger crew 2001-2002
Now with blocking and brakes. I see how SOB could run 3 trains. The problem comes, on my part, from badly configured blocking zones. Your blocks have to be placed in the right way, or else, a block could be too long and the other too short, causing set-ups (like other said). Also, due to the fact that only one train can be in the pre station brakes also complicate the thing, since, if there are slow guests in the station and its can't leave fast enough, you're going to have a set-up on the block brake, which is a major problem whenever lap bars are involved (guests can slip out of a lap bar, harnesses are quite harder to get out, even with mischievous guests...). I have seen, on a woodie, a ride op walk to the end brakes and check the guests, to make sure nobody tries to get out when there's a slow dispatch. That is, I believe the reason SOB can't run a third train, especially with the lap bars and seatbelts its has.
SOB doesn't have seatbelts, just FOF does, also SOB has good capacity any way due to loading and unloading from the same station.
Also FOF only has 6 peole 4 in the station, 1 in unload, and a GR person at the front of the line
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I have been stopped on the center block brake a few times. When the train is released, there is drive wheels that give the train a boost to push it out of the block area, and down into the drop before the loop. The train is supposed to hit 62 MPH while entering the loop so the kicker wheels do help a bit.
-Sean
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