Worse Break Down You`re Been On

ChingFu, was that in late june/early july??? i was there before the 4th of july and we waited for almost 4 hours ...the ride kept swinging back and forth from flying to normal postions and then not at all or staying in flying (like you said) i did get to ride though......awesome coaster

Josh

Montu, got an actual station brakes failure!! Train rolled right through the station without stopping and they ended up stopping the train on the lift. I got a walkdown from about halfway up the lift. No free anything...

When American Eagle first opened trains were getting e-stopped on top of the lift almost 4 or 5 times a day. That was my very first year of riding coasters (1981) and I was e-stopped up there three times with one walkdown(back then 15 stories was about as tall as they came so it made it just that much more intimidating of a walk down.)

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Bob Hansen

Operation Wicked Twister
Goal: Lose enough weight (50lbs) to ride Wicked Twister in 2K3
Progress: 25 pounds since 1-1-2003

I havn't been on any really bad breakdowns, but I do have a thing for getting trains stuck in brakes.

Actually, when I was riding the Williams Grove Cyclone(the thing is seriously falling down), we had just gotten stuck in the ingeniously designed flat, yes flat, brake run(it dosn't stop the train, but slows it to like 5 mph), and the ride op came out and just pushed the train singlehandedly into the station. Then not even an hour later, we snapped one of the braces that holds the track to the structure, and the ride ops went wild because they thought the train was going to fall off. Also, on that ride, the antirollback thingie never seems to engage.

And just a couple of hours ago, when I was talking to a maintainence guy on Grizzly, he was talking about how many times the train has gotten stuck, and he said that once it started snowing near the end of the day, and the train didn't make it up the final hill, and rolled back 2 hills. Because of the snow, they said just forget it and deal with it in the morning, but that morning there was 8 inches of snow. He also said that it has rolled back into the tunnel once ane that they had to take the tunnel apart to get tha train out. And not so long ago, he said that they were testing it, and the train never came back, so they drove on the little road that goes around it, and the train was just sitting there on the top of the second hill.

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wood's just as good
*** This post was edited by nightride 4/26/2003 11:35:01 PM ***

Actually J Bird, this happened a few weeks ago (last Sunday in March.) I've seen this happen several times before, but this was the longest and I happened to be on it. The reason they didn't offer us any exit passes is probably because the park was almost empty and you would wait as long with an exit pass as you would in the normal line Excluding the inconvenience, the ride was awesome.

I was on Test Track and it got stuck right before the crash test for a half hour. Then when it did launch, we came to a sudden stop right before we "hit" the wall. Apperantly, the wall was stuck and wouldn't open up so it did an e-stop. After another hour, we went through the rest of the course, very slowly. After we got off, they gave us 1 free meal and 1 exit pass to the ride of our choosing at Epcot. Fun times.

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People scare me.

One time on a Roar (west) ride, I smelled smoke midride. This isn't a big deal because there is a food stand right next to it, but then when we got to the brakes I realized it smelled like burning tires, or rubber, something to that extent. It was at that time I noticed smoke coming out from underneath the car in front of us (row 10) and it was coming out in fairly large quantities. Being one of 8 people on the train and one of three in the back able to see the smoke, it was very scary. I would say I was almost in a state of panic. By the time we entered the station, there was a very little amount of smoke coming off that car.

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