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Official Goliath Thread
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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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. Missing Shockwave more and more every day.
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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? Last edited by Iron Wolf 90-11 on November 1st, 2013, 3:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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.
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? 
Well, I guess not. My mistake. I do apologize Last edited by Goliath72165 on October 30th, 2013, 6:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I'm glad that SFGAm is really starting to get on top of the construction process.
I am to! 
I think we all are.
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 Those are some sweet shirts! I can't wait till the shirts come out next year with the ride stats in them.
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. Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104 
That would be a miracle. I don't see it happening but we can always hope.
^^ You do realize that is not in any way related to anything even remotely connected to Goliath, right
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.
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. Can't live without Roller Coasters!
All trains on opening day is unrealistic.
Can we please stop complaining about how many trains there will be on opening day and get back on topic?
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.
Soooo Goliath....
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. Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104
^ 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
Now really back to Goliath
Any station work done yet???
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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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