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I'm looking very forward (backward?) to riding it backwards (forward?), since I haven't ridden it that way before !!! :)
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Taken from my local Pick'n Save ad this week,
"Ride the red side-facing forwards... ride the blue side- facing backwards for an all-new experience."
Nothing about time frame, but I think it's funny, 'all-new.' They only did it how many times? If you ask me, they should follow PKI and leave it backwards all the time. Instead of Racer and Recar, we could ride American Eagle or Elgae Nacirema.
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I would leave the train backwards all the time just because the blue side doesn't have much going for it anyway, but when I was there for Fright Fest '01 on the first weekend, I asked one of the ride ops for Eagle why they weren't running either of the sides backwards. she said that running them backwards did something to mess up the brakes so they weren't going to turn them around this year. if you ask me, that doesn't make much sense and the op could have been pulling my leg, but that's what she said. maybe they're only running it backwards for a short period of time because they don't want the brakes to get too messed up.
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Do they have to change the anti-rollback equipment on the trains so the cars can run backwards? I imagine that if they do, that was what she meant SFGA Bob...
TrBiggar said:
"Instead of Racer and Recar, we could ride American Eagle or Elgae Nacirema."
Sounds like a ride that should be in Southwest Territory!
jeremy
--who notes that Naomi backwards is "I moan"
Yeah, they have to change the anti-rollback devices. The RED train is on the track ready to go. The BLUE train is sitting next to Daredevil Dive, not on yet.
American Eagle was not designed to go backwards, although it can do it as safley as forwards. It is hard on the trains, but for a ride like Eagle with a dwindling life span I'd think it could handle it the rest of its days (which hopefully are many more!)
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