Alpengeist question

[BeemerBoy]

 

While I am not sure of the exact reason....I can tell you that is BS...Busch just yanks the seats off of the 1st 2 rows for ALL their inverts for the camera...it is not a special wheel assembly for that....., (see pic of Montu below) there are NO onboard controls...the train has metal that passes a "limit switch" that tells the Ride Computer (Not On Board!) where the train is and calculate how fast it got there and applies the brakes...accordingly

 

The train would easily make it around the course without the 0 car

 

Like Fanatic said ALL B&Ms have it....the "0" car spins laterally but not vertically for whatever reason.next time you are in the 2nd seat of a B&M invert see for yourself or a good trick is to hold your feet straight out...the first row stays the same distance in front of you through the loops....not so in any other row.

 

I have been searching for the answer for 9 years and still have not found a logical one that makes any sense....IMO it is cosmetic...and has no real importance. IMO it is ugly and kills the speed effect in the 1st row

 

Edit: Come to think about I did hear a semi-good reason once as it was for extra cusion in collisions and Ironically it had one opening weekend in 1998

 

 

JEFF

 

This pic may dispute that claim about the first two rows. Sorry to be picky. I just thought two rows seemed a bit too much.

Thank you, Johnnyupsidedown.com

[Real]

^More stable is what weve been trying to say from the get-go. lol.

[Tmcdllr]

Thank you all for the replies. Now it all is starting to make sense, I think that picture of Scream really shows it. Thanks again.