Parking Trains at night

Actually, magnetic brakes will effectively bring a train to a full stop, they just won't prevent the train from rolling out of the brakes. At least that's what Magnetar says...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

coasterdude I edited the post as soon as I posted. You had to have saw that very quickly.

Anyway of course magnets cannot fully stop an object, I just wasn't thinking of it that way. Unless magnets are actually touching an object they cannot bring anything to a stop, well they can but it will start rolling again.

Edit: Ride Man beat me to it

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*** This post was edited by MagnumForce on 10/29/2002. ***

I guess it's a matter of how you word it. If a brake can't hold the train, then it can't really *stop* it, can it? In other words, if the train is going to keep rolling with just magnetic brakes (however slow), then it isn't stopping the train is it? Hence the need for kicker tires. :-)

-Nate

It could be argued that, for at least an infinetly small period of time, the train is, in fact, stopped. But I doubt that an amusement park would be impressed if a manufacturer put something like that in their ride specs...

The whole magnetic brakes can't "stop" a train is the reason why Superman: The Escape had a fin brake installed a few years ago to prevent the train from flying thru the "wall" in the station.

I think its interesting how the B&M stand ups used the vertical kicker wheels in the station instead of the pinch drives that they use now. Its funny to see a train come in and rock back and forth when it stops. Giovanola did this on Goliath as well.

X at SFMM makes a cool noise as it advances from station to station.

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