jarmor Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 Can someone PLEASE just name this the B&M Track Manufacturing Facility Thread or something???? ...no
ZeroGravity55 Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 ^ This would be the week to get to the plant if HW is getting a B&M. Should be able to tell what is getting ready to be shipped. From what I can tell, they send everything on flatbed trailers within the United States.
spidermonkey317 Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 Holiday World announcement tomorrow. Some of the answers to the questions in this thread should hopefully be addressed tomorrow night.
Locostitch Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 ^So Carowinds is getting the Teal? No. The teal is flyer track. So the question is where the in the *bleep* is the teal going!!
FSUFanChris Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Wasn't there some rusted track out there a week or two ago waiting to be painted?
OneOfTheWills Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 I've seen some close up photos of HW's Thunderbird track (I know a guy) and the orange/red track in the photos posted here looks smaller than Thunderbird's. Maybe it's because I don't have much to compare scale to on these photos where as the close up's of HW's track I have people standing next to it to scale to.
RyanTPM Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 ^If that red/orange track isn't for Thunderbird then B&M have a lot of projects next year! Seems like 2 dive coasters, 1 launched wingrider, 1 giga and the unknown flyer/invert.
loop-de-loop Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 I've seen some close up photos of HW's Thunderbird track (I know a guy) and the orange/red track in the photos posted here looks smaller than Thunderbird's. Maybe it's because I don't have much to compare scale to on these photos where as the close up's of HW's track I have people standing next to it to scale to. Track size can range from really thick to normal. See Leviathan: Thick Thin
rcjp Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 ^Yeah but that's a special case as the track on the lift also acts as a support. Still, normally the thickness of the box (only in height) varies according to the stress on those areas.
_koppen Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 I actually think it's going to be very interesting to see if they will use the same lift hill construction as on Leviathan, where the spine goes down into the ground, on the one at Carowinds or if there's a better solution when there's not a coaster below it.
rcjp Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 ^I think it's more to save steel than it was to avoid dragon fire. A bit like the structure intamin used for I305 and Skyrush only it's all in one (track and supports ) So I assume they will use it. Could be wrong, though.
ZeroGravity55 Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 So what I think is funny is the fact that we were all focused on the red track in this picture a month ago, and Thunderbird's track was visible, but nobody really mentioned it. We always refereed to is as red/orange track together, not separately.
RyanTPM Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Certainly is yellow track that. Still seems like the flyer, we saw close up pictures of that track a while ago and it was of a flyer.
rcjp Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 ^I think this was it. Our Dutch spy has shared some more photos... trip report style (in Dutch): http://themepark.nl/ubb/ubbthreads.php/topics/2132316/Re_B_M_Fabriek_Ohio.html#Post2132316 high res photos at Flickr:
RyanTPM Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 ^We can see from those pictures that the yellow track has got curved ties, and that's why we said this was of the flyer a while ago.
OneOfTheWills Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 So what I think is funny is the fact that we were all focused on the red track in this picture a month ago, and Thunderbird's track was visible, but nobody really mentioned it. We always refereed to is as red/orange track together, not separately. I think that is yellow track and not the Thunderbird orange. The red/orange track does look a little more red than the Thunderbird track but it could just be lighting. If you look at the closely, you can see that new tie design we were all talking about a few pages ago. It's the launch track. Pay attention starting around 0:05 just before the propelling tires and continuing on under the LSM plates. So, I think that red/orange track is Thunderbird track but we just don't have anything to scale it to and the lighting makes the color seem redder than the animation does.
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