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Postby GoBears on October 28th, 2013, 7:07 pm
The topper track is designed to allow the wood underneath it to naturally flex to the weather without restricting it which may cause the wood to crack and slightly splinter.
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Postby woohoodude11 on October 28th, 2013, 10:03 pm
CoasterMike wrote:I knew that all roller coasters are designed to sway however, I did not know that if the track didn't sway, it would snap. Thanks for sharing that interesting fact with me. I'll know next time I witness/see any roller coaster track move I'll know why and why it is a good thing. Thanks again.


If you really wanna see a good example of sway, take a look at V2 on a Pt. Cloudy day. It decreased a little bit after that extra support was added, but you can still see it pretty good.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on October 29th, 2013, 4:30 pm
"Concrete caissons are going in at Goliath"

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Postby Iron Wolf 90-11 on October 30th, 2013, 4:03 pm
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Six Flags is not wasting any time with Goliath construction. They have already torn down the one pavilion, the one shaded pavilion, the fences by the wilderness theatre, and the shaded structure that you would see Iron Wolf from when going though Necropolis. Also, does anybody know what the crane by Spracely Sprocket Rockets is for?
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Postby CoasterMike on October 30th, 2013, 4:24 pm
That crane by Spacley's Sprocket Rockets might be there to remove the train off the track so it can go in for servicing over the winter.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on October 30th, 2013, 4:25 pm
Iron Wolf 90-11 wrote:Also, does anybody know what the crane by Spacely Sprocket Rockets is for?


The logical assumption would be that maintenance is removing the train from Spacely Sprocket Rockets.
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Postby Goliath72165 on October 30th, 2013, 4:34 pm
DejaVu2001 wrote:
Iron Wolf 90-11 wrote:Also, does anybody know what the crane by Spacely Sprocket Rockets is for?


The logical assumption would be that maintenance is removing the train from Spacely Sprocket Rockets.


That's what CoasterMike just said in the previous post.
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Postby aesthyrian on October 30th, 2013, 5:50 pm
Goliath72165 wrote:
DejaVu2001 wrote:
Iron Wolf 90-11 wrote:Also, does anybody know what the crane by Spacely Sprocket Rockets is for?


The logical assumption would be that maintenance is removing the train from Spacely Sprocket Rockets.


That's what CoasterMike just said in the previous post.


Really? Was is necessary to state the obvious? :lol:
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Postby Goliath72165 on October 30th, 2013, 6:13 pm
aesthyrian wrote: Really? Was is necessary to state the obvious? :lol:


Well, I guess not. My mistake. I do apologize
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Postby CoasterMike on October 30th, 2013, 6:18 pm
I'm glad that SFGAm is really starting to get on top of the construction process.
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Postby Goliath72165 on October 30th, 2013, 6:24 pm
CoasterMike wrote:I'm glad that SFGAm is really starting to get on top of the construction process.



I am to! :D
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Postby CoasterMike on October 30th, 2013, 6:30 pm
Goliath72165 wrote:I am to! :D


I think we all are. :D
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Postby Goliath72165 on October 30th, 2013, 6:38 pm
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Postby kossdude1 on November 1st, 2013, 11:38 am
CoasterMike wrote:I'm glad that SFGAm is really starting to get on top of the construction process.

Hopefully (not saying this will happen) they'll get on top of their game enough to the point where we see ALL trains on the tracks for the coasters by Opening Day. I doubt it though.
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Postby coasterkidd100 on November 1st, 2013, 12:00 pm
That would be a miracle. I don't see it happening but we can always hope.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on November 1st, 2013, 12:03 pm
^^ You do realize that is not in any way related to anything even remotely connected to Goliath, right :lol: And I don't think you'll ever see ALL trains on opening day. I'll say right now, nothing will have 3 trains Opening Day, and Superman will have 1 train. That much you can take to the bank.
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Postby SFGAm#1Fan on November 1st, 2013, 12:31 pm
I don't think next years opening day will be as bad as this years. Maintenance spent alot of time focusing on Batman backwards and was only able to finish one train in time for opening day. X-Flight's second train, from what I heard, had a maintenance issue that was out of the parks control until the necesarry parts came in from B&M in order to fix it. I'm still not sure why Whizzer only had one train ready for opening day this past season!? But everthing else was pretty much the norm. Eagle Red, Demon, Bull, Viper all had two train operations and of course Superman hasn't run two trains on an opening day since 2007.

I have a feeling next years opening day operations will go much smother than this past season.
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Postby JimPanky on November 1st, 2013, 1:38 pm
All trains on opening day is unrealistic.
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Postby CoasterMike on November 2nd, 2013, 10:18 am
Can we please stop complaining about how many trains there will be on opening day and get back on topic?
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Postby Sporlo on November 2nd, 2013, 3:31 pm
You're part of the problem. And now so am I. Your comment was almost 24 hours after the last train post; it wasn't exactly taking over the thread.
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Postby IzCoaster on November 2nd, 2013, 9:50 pm
Soooo Goliath....
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Postby kossdude1 on November 2nd, 2013, 11:49 pm
Not to get off topic again, but I would like to apologize for that post. I was trying to state that since the construction process on Goliath was going so quickly, that maybe they'd also step up their game for rehab of coaster trains.

Since they have a couple less trains to worry about now (the cars on RC after equalling out the Goliath trains), we may see at least one more coaster running at full capacity Opening Day (Batman and/or X-Flight). Also, hopefully removing RC gives them the opportunity to provide attention to TDK.

Also, didn't the park used to open in early April a few years back?

Ok, now back to Goliath. :D
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Postby DejaVu2001 on November 3rd, 2013, 4:49 am
^ Still the same number of cars to work on. SFGAm is doing the rehab on Cajun's cars this year before they get shipped to SFA. But the only other coaster in the same Maintenance zone as Cajun is Spacely's, so that's a non-issue :lol:

Now really back to Goliath :lol:
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Postby nick42085 on November 3rd, 2013, 6:28 pm
Any station work done yet???
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Postby FParker185 on November 3rd, 2013, 8:53 pm
I gotta guess station work will be the very last thing done since I'm sure any new station will be built on the new structure to be erected.
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