[LocalYokel]

It's a water line. The line runs along the creek and turns north through Granite Street toward Westinghouse. As of last week the construction has gotten to the old post office on Granite.

[tarheel1231]

I can't remember if I've asked this before, but why do the Arrow mine trains at the Cedar Fair parks have higher height requirements than the Six Flags parks? It's just sad that these parks are sitting on top of great family coasters yet they're alienating most of the people that would ride them.

[FamousAmos]

Do the Six Flag's ones even have seat belts? Just curious.

[RollerBee]

Do the Six Flag's ones even have seat belts? Just curious.

SFOG's mine train has better cars, they are the original style. At some point between River King Mine Train and Carolina Goldrusher Arrow redesigned the Mine Coaster trains.

Big Bad John at Magic Springs operates with the new style trains, they are changed either at Dollywood or Magic Springs.

River King Mine Train at SFStL still has it's original trains.

[skidude70]

I am telling my age...but...this height requirement is all Cedar Fair. When I worked on Goldrusher back in the day, the height requirement was 36". Children between 36-44 inches had to be accompanied by a responsible person. This was when KECO owned the park and the ride truly was run by a person and not a computer. That's also when we could operate 3 trains. And, of course, we didn't have those annoying seat belts to deal with either. Needless to say, more people rode the ride and the capacity was tremendous. Paramount was also more lenient on the height requirement, not only on Goldrusher but some of the other coasters too. T-Road, Hurler for example sported a 44" inch requirement, instead of CF's 48" requirement.

[carolinaman]

^So the current height requirements are CF and not he manufacturers suggested ride height of the ride??

[skidude70]

Correct. The manufacturer has a minimum requirement and a park can opt for a higher requirement if they so choose. The first year Goldrusher, T-Road, and Hurler bumped to 48", guest complaints were rampant. It was hard to explain. In October, little Sally could ride the Goldrusher. Now, in March of the following year, she can't.

[RollerBee]

I worked Goldrusher in 2005, height restriction was the same back then as he described. I worked Hurler in 2006, Hurler was 44" with adult, 48" to ride alone.

[chknwing]

So Screamscape is reporting that a 2018 Vortex conversion to floorless is most likely going to happen. Is there room there to extend the track?

[FamousAmos]

It wouldn't be necessary to extend the track.
But there is a little room over the lake, to answer your question.

[chknwing]

It wouldn't be necessary to extend the track.
But there is a little room over the lake, to answer your question.

not necessary but man it would be boring as hell as is. and I am positive B&M can remove and redesign it a bit to make it longer and better suited for a floorless.

[coasterbruh]

It wouldn't be boring to that person who is finally tall enough to ride the big coasters. We gotta stop thinking like coaster nerds some times and realize that more than us go to the parks.

[Edwardo]

They're not extending it.

[FamousAmos]

Exactly.
Which is why I'd like to see GCI or someone else (other than in-house) retrack Hurler entirely. It makes for a great inbetweener coaster. And yes, the parts of Hurler that were retracked were done in house with little help from GCI. However, GCI did play a small part in it.

[chknwing]

splash down, tunnel, pyro anything to make it more intersting?