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http://ir.famousdaves.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92947&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2150925 The first of three units for Bart Kinzel of York, SC.

"A bent in American English is a framework composed of several structural members that defines the cross-section of a timber frame building or supports a trestle. In British English this assembly is called a "cross frame". The term bent is probably an archaic past tense of the verb to bind, referring to the way the timbers of a bent are joined together" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_(structural) 10 seconds.

Wow, this is an extremely sad loss for the industry.

Bins in the station lower capacity.

Retracks/reprofiling actually can involve some minor changes to the track, look at the minor adjustments that GCI did to Carowinds Hurler. The track layout itself didn't change enough that the GP knows the differenance but the banking was changed, the curve was moved out on the entrance. Also on Ghostrider, GCI moved around the ledgers without rebuilding the bents. GCI has also stated that they made changes to Thunder Road's design but even I can't find them other than the ride being much smoother.

Another bent going up now, looks like they are still working backwards down the lifthill.

Post them, I am interested.

http://www.cplerr.com/erWardkimball.html I learned something today.

It though B&M built parabolic airtime hills?

Like what I said earlier, WDWRR is the same gauge as KI and many other park trains. The trains at the Magic Kingdom have significantly longer boilers than a typical crown locomotive, mainly to accommodate more driving wheels.See the Walter E. Disney for example However the Roy O. Disney has the exact same wheel arrangement as a typical American style locomotive that Crown Metal Products based their designs off of. Notice how spaced out the driving wheels are to accommodate a larger boiler. http://prrsteam.pennsyrr.com/images/prr6240.jpgThe likely model for Crown Metal Products 4-4-0 http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/p/65353/8408734/1296071588220/lillybellereplica1-2010.jpg?asGalleryImage=true&token=0ccOL5cIQuJ4vXCIPm%2Fa9ekQSMA%3D Walt Disney's Lilybelle, Roy O. Disney is based off the Central Pacific 173 as is the Lilybelle. Disneyland RR numbers 1 and 2 are also based on this locomotive. http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/p/65353/8408734/1296071588220/lillybellereplica1-2010.jpg?asGalleryImage=true&token=0ccOL5cIQuJ4vXCIPm%2Fa9ekQSMA%3D C.P. 173 I am pretty sure Disney used the 4-6-0 locomotives instead of 4-4-0 because the WDW trains are longer and the track is too. Roy Disney personally requested that his locomotive be different from The Walter E. Disney.

Why are some bents going up in two pieces while others of similar height are going up whole?

Crown Metal Products are not and never were standard gauge, they sold them in 3 feet narrow gauge and 2 feet narrow gauge. I think they also made 16" gauge too. Disney has stated many times in history that it was cheaper to buy and retore locomotives than buy them new. Crown locomotives in their original form were no less real steam locomotives than Tweetsie Railroad and Dollywood. Even Carowinds owned one locomotive that Crown rebuilt but was used Porter locomotive. By the time, Kings Island and Carowinds came about narrow gauge steam was near impossible to find.

I got John A Miller confused with John C Miller(are they related?) then remembered that Big Dipper has NAD trains. I also didn't know about the in-house rebuild.

I would say two, Carowinds went looking for Thunder Road's blueprints before they tore her down; they couldn't find them right away. A friend of mine was going to the build a large model of Thunder Road for the park using the blueprints. I suspect PTC may keep blueprints of all their coasters either for display or if questions come up later. There again I could be wrong. However I just realized that Big Dipper might not be a PTC....

Carsland features several elements from Route 66 as does the movie, really the whole movie is an advertisement against the Elsenhower Interstate System. Route 66 runs through California. A Bugs Land was prior to the big push to reinvent DCA and is mainly a mini-kiddie area. Little Mermaid is part of Paradise Pier which is based around a boardwalk amusement park, dark rides were common. Mission Breakout is taking a huge structure that was specifically designed to fit in with the area around it and cutting it into an island while leaving the rest of the area untouched. I believe this decision is a knee jerk reaction to Univerisal Harry Potter and Disney wanting to use IPs while using an accountant budget. The real question is how did the accountant get the imagineers to go along?

You and I think about a lot of the same things lol. I think they'll just work downhill from the top of the lift. Trying to fish the tallest supports in between two standing supports would be a PITA. It's certainly doable, and that very well might be what they end up doing. Personally, I'd rather deal with some extra cribbing on the ground than trying to get those last few supports in place in a tight window. Once they get this stack of bents up they are working on, I suspect a new stack of bents will be put together while the crane is erecting the stack next to the motor house. My opinion is based on the thought that they wouldn't want to pay for the crane for a day just to wait while they finish putting bents together.

No, but I am not sure how many went up.

So how are they going to get the crane out of the infield with all the footings done?

It looks like a cheap overlay of the bare bones of the tower.

Maybe they took that same Trex to CP....

http://carowindszone.net/photos/ Most of Carowinds photos, I haven't got around to posting my old amusement park photos of other parks.

not sure how long that would last before it got shut down due to whiplash lawsuits. Firechaser Express, Tempteso, Superman:The Ride....

Keep it open, there are many movies and video games with similar content.

Sandals get stolen from shoe keepers at a nearby(to me) waterpark on a regular basis.

GCI uses gravity to move the trains through the brakes, transfer and station. The station will be lower than the shed unless KI wanted a drive system in these sections. As far as drop track, this can be done on an incline plain. Mack Rides uses an elevator style lift sometimes to store trains on. All that said, I doubt a drop track either for transfer or theme purposes.