[goldsteh]

Or he could be playing us and it's today. If it were to test they would want the retweets and favorites to come from the main park twitter account of @carowindspark.
Just a thought. Hope everything is ok with him if that is not the case.

[Axel]

another plane pic taken yesterday by Dustin Vinke...

[goldsteh]

Unless my eyes are deceiving me it looks as though the tarps have been removed from the tunnel portion of Fury 325. Anyone else have "younger" eyes?

[tarheel1231]

Or he could be playing us and it's today. If it were to test they would want the retweets and favorites to come from the main park twitter account of @carowindspark.
Just a thought. Hope everything is ok with him if that is not the case.

I could see them trying to get testing out of the way before more snow comes in.

[Jarsh]

They might run it once to make sure it completes the circuit, but they won't get testing out to the way before it snows because the testing process is a lengthy one.

[Koallinbear]

Via carowinds last instagram post

[tarheel1231]

They might run it once to make sure it completes the circuit, but they won't get testing out to the way before it snows because the testing process is a lengthy one.

Yeah, I meant the first run. I could've worded my question better.

[Jarsh]

The park just tweeted to someone asking about testing that it was looking like early next week now.

[Sean978]

Goldrusher valleys in the tunnel, Afterburn valleys between the station fly over and the batwing, Hurler has valleyed once to my knowledge between the lift and first drop(techically second drop). These are only common during really cold weather or test runs prior to preseason.
Didn't BORG valleyed during testing and sit there during a snow storm before the loop?

I believe what you're referring to (And I could be wrong) is when a few employees were riding pre-season, in 2007, and someone bumped the button to make the seats go up. The employees were stuck at the bottom of the loop for awhile but that definitely wasn't a Valley.

[Jarsh]

Ummm... you do know the meaning of "valleying" right? When a train fails to complete the circuit. Regardless of what cause the train to valley, BORG did do it at the bottom of the loop - you said so yourself.

[jsreid]

So what happens when a train valleys? How do they get it back to the station?

[Hiveminded]

^ Typically they would remove the upstops and take the cars off one at a time and truck them back to the station.

[Edwardo]

How would pushing the button to raise the seats cause it to valley? There's no connection on the course that would make the button work. So it wouldn't do anything.

Besides, didn't they switch to a leaver raising and lowering the seats ion the ride when it was moved?

[CoasterFreak225]

Scroll to the bottom of the page, Leviathan valleyed during a windy day, they didn't show the cars being raised off the track, but you could see the general set up for this kind of situation.

Windy Canada's Wonderland TR

Also you could see a pulley system used to tow Maverick's train to give it a push to complete the circuit at very bottom of the page.

[RollerBee]

Depends on the ride and where it valleys in the course. Thunder Road has a second chain and antiroll back on the turn around to prevent volleying. Goldrusher is pulled up by a winch when it valleys in the tunnel. Afterburn's train is removed as described. Hurler I was told they just got a bunch of workers to push.

I found the time lapse construction of BORG, the train in visibly buried in snow before the loop.