Construction pics of American Eagle.

[Chitown]

Pretty cool pics of the world's tallest and fastest coaster (at the time) being built.

http://www.greatamericaparks.com/images ... m=7&page=1

[zjohn1988]

Wow

[Trailblazer Tony]

Those were in a book that i read a long time ago. It had the list of how many feet of wood used, number of nails used, and how many gallons of paint used. I wish i could remember the name of the book. Great Pics!

[Mr_Paradise_316]

that is really really cool...I love AE, it is a great ride...but red is better than blue in my opinion.

[playerplex]

Cool pics. It nice to see how some of the older coasters were built.

[FRD714]

Nice!

[Aero737]

Nice pictures Chitown. The picture of the helix being built is just mind boggleing how they did it and got everything to work perfectly.

Now I wonder where that American Eagle model is at Great America...

Trailblazer Tony, the facts you speak of are posted (at least they were at one point) on RCDB.com if you would like to retrieve them. I'm thinking they were cited from your book.

[Trailblazer Tony]

^Thanks, i wrote it down a long time ago and lost the sheet.

[zjohn1988]

2,000 concrete footings (average of 18" in diameter, 4.5 feet in). 1,360,000 board feet of lumber used. 129,720 bolts. 30,600 lbs. of nails (15 tons). 9,000 gallons of white paint. over 20,000 man hours to build

[FRD714]

^ Thats a lot!

[Rusty888]

I saw that book too, I'm using it as a sorce for my science project,

[CoasterDude12-2]

I didn't know Eagle's first drop went slightly below ground level. Now I get why it's 127ft tall with a 147ft drop. Cool pics.

[Mr_Paradise_316]

That is alot of work....Does anyone know anything about Raging Bulls construction and what it took?

[Becky O 33]

Those are really cool!

[Jeff]

I have that book.

[zjohn1988]

I didn't know Eagle's first drop went slightly below ground level. Now I get why it's 127ft tall with a 147ft drop. Cool pics.

a lot of people dont realize this.

[Trailblazer Tony]

[quote="Jeff"]I have that book. [/quote]

What was the name, i forgot?

[v2guy13]

heres something i think is really cool...





my grandfather helped build that ride. He said that he worked 13 hours a day 6 days a week. He mostly helped build the first helix from the station and the two hills after the drop. He also worked on whizzer. That he worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week but got finished in half the time. He worked on dip before the final helix and the block station that went around the spiral lift!

[FRD714]

^ Thats really is cool!

[scbb11Sketch]

One of my friends used to work at GAm, and his job was to pick up all the bolts that fell off AE every day. He would come back with boxes of them.

[mschulz5]

For some reason, I have trouble believing that.

[scbb11Sketch]

Fine. Don't believe it. I knew that if I said it, it would get shot down right away. Don't believe me even though I actually saw him doing it before.

[Binks Drake]

Right what department was he in "Bolt Picking Up"?

[FRD714]

^ Do these bolts ever make it back onto the ride or are they waiting for the thing to fall apart?

[Binks Drake]

Grow some brains.