General Carowinds discussion
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By DavidW
#64760
Update for yesterday:
Looks like 3 or 4 pieces of track installed. Link to gallery
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By chknwing
#64761
so the renders and the videos show Furys cat walk to be the same as the track color. I wonder why they changed it to white. just my 2 cents but I kinda liked it the same as the track color.
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By jsz1002
#64763
chknwing wrote:so the renders and the videos show Furys cat walk to be the same as the track color. I wonder why they changed it to white. just my 2 cents but I kinda liked it the same as the track color.

White is cheaper!
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By Jarsh
#64766
jdkiser74 wrote:That was my thought; I hope I am wrong because that does not leave much time for testing before opening day. BTW does anybody know how long after completion do they start testing with the water dummies? I know we are getting ahead of ourselves.


I want to say someone said the trains were scheduled for delivery sometime in February. It would be safe to assume that the track work would be complete at some point in February and testing will begin in late February/early March.
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By jsz1002
#64768
RollerBee wrote:Looks like they are working on the slanted brakerun, could we see the lift started on Friday?

I wish Carowinds would release some pictures. It seems they've made a lot of progress since Monday.
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By chknwing
#64770
RollerBee wrote:Looks like they are working on the slanted brakerun, could we see the lift started on Friday?


its possible. I dont see it. They have alot more footers to be poured for this thing. Their not going to want to bring in the big crane, do a few sections and then have it sit idle until footers cure as it is an expensive piece of equipment to rent.
By Boris
#64771
chknwing wrote:
RollerBee wrote:Looks like they are working on the slanted brakerun, could we see the lift started on Friday?


its possible. I dont see it. They have alot more footers to be poured for this thing. Their not going to want to bring in the big crane, do a few sections and then have it sit idle until footers cure as it is an expensive piece of equipment to rent.


Just wondering, how long do the footers have to cure?
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By chknwing
#64772
Boris wrote:
chknwing wrote:
RollerBee wrote:Looks like they are working on the slanted brakerun, could we see the lift started on Friday?


its possible. I dont see it. They have alot more footers to be poured for this thing. Their not going to want to bring in the big crane, do a few sections and then have it sit idle until footers cure as it is an expensive piece of equipment to rent.


Just wondering, how long do the footers have to cure?


I'd say about 30 days
By jdkiser74
#64773
It looks like construction has really picked up, you can see that there are 2 cranes in action, one working on the station and the other working on the track for the brake run
By jdkiser74
#64780
I would assume that all of the lift hill footers are completed......if you go back and look at some of the earlier construction pics you can clearly see that they had already begun the footers all the way out past the paladium.
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