[Merthecat]

Okay, NOW I can see why everyone thinks this thing is so huge. Before I saw that first picture, it didn't really look that tall to me.

[DavidW]

One support and 2 pieces of track installed. Link to gallery

(best if you open the pic in a new tab)

[tarheel1231]

Wow! This thing is shooting up. I think we may see the barrel turn completed by the end of this week.

[chknwing]

posted 2 pages ago tarheel

[mark40511]

On a fury 325 youtube vid, someone commented that they had never heard of Carowinds.....they said this looks awesome and it was on their bucket list........

Attraction known around the world?

[arby]

Thanks for the informative post, ASU2009. I should stop guessing.

[jdkiser74]

Ok just wondering what everyone else thought about why they installed the low section of track before the S-curve. Could this be a stopping point because of the work being done on the new entrance, and when they reach this point will they return to the brake run and work back to the two camelback hills and then to the double helix....just a thought.

[tarheel1231]

^It seems like the track is a good distance from most of the front gate construction. I think they'll keep building that way then head back once the Horseshoe Turn is done.

March 28th needs to come fast. I'm suffering from coaster withdraw. Building a PVC looks like it takes to long, so I'll just do this:

[FamousAmos]

In that video on the previous page, Mike said "about a month" for the next announcement... The Winter Warm-up? That's when the next announcement will be? Yay!

[DT3]

^It seems like the track is a good distance from most of the front gate construction. I think they'll keep building that way then head back once the Horseshoe Turn is done.

March 28th needs to come fast. I'm suffering from coaster withdraw. Building a PVC looks like it takes to long, so I'll just do this:

Hopefuly we get one of those by 2020! They seem to be trending, and successful .

[uscbandfan]

Here's a question for some of you big-time roller-coaster construction aficionados out there.

It's my understanding that once the track is completed and the trains are placed on the track, the trains are painstakingly pulled through the course an inch at a time checking variances in the contact points the wheels make with the track, etc. If that is true, how do they do those measurements on the steep hills? My assumption is that they have some kind of cabling system in front of and behind the train to hold it in place.

Thoughts?

[DavidW]

B&M doesn't do that with their coasters, they do a much easier and efficient method. They use a test gauge like the one hanging from Banshees track in this pic

[uscbandfan]

B&M doesn't do that with their coasters, they do a much easier and efficient method. They use a test gauge like the one hanging from Banshees track in this pic


Cool. Makes sense to have a better way. Maybe pulling the train was the way it was done way back when.

[uscbandfan]

I know another big test they do is the tunnel test and that bracket you have pictured might do the same thing as well. (This test measures the outermost area where something (or someone) could reach throughout the ride.) That area is called "the tunnel". This ensures you're not going to be decapitated or de-handed while on the ride. The Great American Scream Machine at SFoG in Atlanta barely clears this one in the final break run. Fun to sit in the back and watch everyone jerk their hands down because they think they're going to hit the canopy.

[FamousAmos]

^^I was watching a recent POV of Leviathan, and the tunnel is at the bottom of the drop. Every time, it looks like their arms are going to hit the top of the tunnel, but no. they're all fine. It's funny how those things look as if we will hit them, but in reality, there's a good two feet or so of space in between.

I wonder how construction on the station area and plaza is looking?