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Postby CoastsToCoasters on October 12th, 2024, 5:50 pm
The colors are darker than I thought they'd be but I love it. The supports are awesome darker.


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Postby coasterfanatic on October 12th, 2024, 5:51 pm
Good to see track arriving so soon given they won’t be vertical for several more weeks at least. Dare I say they are ahead of schedule?


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Postby HCF on October 12th, 2024, 10:19 pm
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on October 14th, 2024, 4:46 pm
What are those rusted metal tubes?

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Postby B&MGuy35 on October 14th, 2024, 4:55 pm
TwistedSTEEL666 wrote:What are those rusted metal tubes?

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Those go into the ground for the footers

Hers a pic of them on the site as well

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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on October 14th, 2024, 7:13 pm
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TwistedSTEEL666 wrote:What are those rusted metal tubes?

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Those go into the ground for the footers

Hers a pic of them on the site as well

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They look like they got them used from another park.
I hope that doesn't affect the integrity and stability of the ride's foundations.
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on October 14th, 2024, 7:23 pm
Aren't those steel tubes just forms that will come out after footers harden up?
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Postby FParker185 on October 14th, 2024, 10:47 pm
I know what those are, I've worked in a factory that made those, and that's really interesting. I know the water table is high at the park, but didnt' know it was quite that high, and/or they were going that deep. I gotta guess those are for the tallest part of the lift.
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Postby Goku1910 on October 14th, 2024, 11:19 pm
CoasterRiderSC wrote:Aren't those steel tubes just forms that will come out after footers harden up?


Yes, the Caisson's take their place when pouring happens.
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Postby coasterfanatic on October 16th, 2024, 7:04 pm
The park posted today that more track arrived. It’s sections of the lift hill!


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Postby B&MGuy35 on October 17th, 2024, 6:15 pm
We are officially in the ground for footers!!

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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on October 17th, 2024, 6:30 pm
B&MGuy35 wrote:We are officially in the ground for footers!!

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This is good to see!!!
I hope they are on schedule.
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on October 17th, 2024, 6:31 pm
Interesting
Old Great America was better, however I hope just a bit of that charm comes back
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Postby Goku1910 on October 18th, 2024, 12:28 pm
Judging by the first footer location and this water seal pictured above, the usual B&M construction following the direction of travel holds true.

Station and brake run will be first followed by the lift. Since it's so compact I can see on possible exception. That being the final helix over the base of the lift.

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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on October 18th, 2024, 4:39 pm
Goku1910 wrote:Judging by the first footer location and this water seal pictured above, the usual B&M construction following the direction of travel holds true.

Station and brake run will be first followed by the lift. Since it's so compact I can see on possible exception. That being the final helix over the base of the lift.

Guess we will see.


It would make more sense for them to dig and pour the footers for that final helix that is right by the station and brake run. Give those footers the time they need to fully harden and be ready for supports and track. That way that section of the ride can be last to install. It'd be a good idea to dig and pour the footers for the lift hill, first drop and first inversion and so forth ahead of the installation of the supports to those footers and the track onto those supports.
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Postby coasterfanatic on October 20th, 2024, 1:11 pm
There was no work being done yesterday (Saturday). There’s going to be a footer that comes right up to the County Fair Food Court by that open air bar. When you board the train you can see how far footers will go nearly to the SW bridge. All pink markings indicate footer placement.


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Postby Goku1910 on October 20th, 2024, 2:01 pm
coasterfanatic wrote:There was no work being done yesterday (Saturday). There’s going to be a footer that comes right up to the County Fair Food Court by that open air bar. When you board the train you can see how far footers will go nearly to the SW bridge. All pink markings indicate footer placement.


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They don't work on weekends during park operations. They did work last Thursday before the park opened at 6PM.

As for the footers, the only thing I worry about is how narrow that midway between X-Flight's drop has become. It's even more insane now that they have a car there for Fright Fest.
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on October 20th, 2024, 3:14 pm
Do we have a technical drawing or blueprint of where all the supports for Rak will be? I'm curious to where some of them will be.

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Postby coasterfanatic on October 20th, 2024, 7:37 pm
TwistedSTEEL666 wrote:Do we have a technical drawing or blueprint of where all the supports for Rak will be? I'm curious to where some of them will be.

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Postby staticshadows on October 20th, 2024, 8:50 pm
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TwistedSTEEL666 wrote:Do we have a technical drawing or blueprint of where all the supports for Rak will be? I'm curious to where some of them will be.

I don’t think that’s made available publically


You might be able to get a copy of the foundation plans if you submit a FOIA request to the Village of Gurnee for the plans submitted for permit B31MMB .

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Postby CoasterRiderSC on October 20th, 2024, 9:00 pm
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TwistedSTEEL666 wrote:Do we have a technical drawing or blueprint of where all the supports for Rak will be? I'm curious to where some of them will be.

I don’t think that’s made available publically


You might be able to get a copy of the foundation plans if you submit a FOIA request to the Village of Gurnee for the plans submitted for permit B31MMB .

https://onestop.gurnee.il.us/PrmtView.aspx?ref=B31MMB



That's one rather expensive permit!!
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Postby staticshadows on October 20th, 2024, 9:05 pm
CoasterRiderSC wrote:That's one rather expensive permit!!

The building fee for amusement rides in Gurnee is one percent of the estimated project cost. The foundation work is $1.53 million.
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Postby rct2wizard360 on October 21st, 2024, 12:44 pm
Still haven't seen any track for Wrath of Raksasha at Clermont Steel. Just the Big Bad Wolf successor and another light blue coaster.
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Postby B&MGuy35 on October 21st, 2024, 5:59 pm
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