easycoasting
Roller Poster
Hello, does anyone know if there is a coaster boneyard where they keep scraps of rollercoasters that get destroyed?
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Coaster Boneyard
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CanobieFan
Strata Poster
A lot of parks with the land to do it, just keep discarded coaster and ride parts in backstage areas until they eventually get trashed...but there is no one singular coaster dump out there and certainly not one you could visit
Peet
Giga Poster
Sure, it's called Six Flags Great Adventure
Nicky Borrill
Strata Poster
In the UK at least, when a coaster is past it's useful life, and can't be sold on as a working coaster, then it's value lies in the metal. Usually, local scrap metal merchants will purchase the coaster as scrap metal. Therefore they end up at any of a number of scrap yards to be broken down and recycled. Nemesis is a recent example, last I heard, it was still at the scrapyard which purchased it.
I can't imagine it's different anywhere else in the world.
Who knows, you could be driving a coaster around now, or even living / working in a building framed with one.
As @CanobieFan mentioned, if track is to be stored/left to rot, it's usually on-lot at the amusement park. Once they've found a buyer (often a steel scrap yard), track is usually dealt with promptly given financial incentive.
... However, there was a funny incident a few years back where the old Maverick barrel roll (installed and removed after being determined to be too intense) did linger around an older steel scrap yard in Mansfield, OH nearby, 15 years after it was offloaded. Funny that the track wasn't scrapped promptly.
And pin drop on the map where you can see the track: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xi38YVqC9LW1qLjA7
After the funny enthusiast flury, the track was promptly processed - I swung by myself a week or two after that intel drop to see if I could find it, but alas it had moved by that point.
Another funny "boneyard" moment, or rather repurposing - also ironically in Mansfield - was benches I found at the local disc golf course, which were made of upcycled Mean Streak timbers!
... However, there was a funny incident a few years back where the old Maverick barrel roll (installed and removed after being determined to be too intense) did linger around an older steel scrap yard in Mansfield, OH nearby, 15 years after it was offloaded. Funny that the track wasn't scrapped promptly.
And pin drop on the map where you can see the track: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xi38YVqC9LW1qLjA7
After the funny enthusiast flury, the track was promptly processed - I swung by myself a week or two after that intel drop to see if I could find it, but alas it had moved by that point.
Another funny "boneyard" moment, or rather repurposing - also ironically in Mansfield - was benches I found at the local disc golf course, which were made of upcycled Mean Streak timbers!
easycoasting
Roller Poster
Oh, my goodness. That was you? I heard about the infamous heartline section on maverick. So they just dumped it off in Mansfield, OH? Wow, that must have been amazing.