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Saw Stalls

Yeah, I understand that but I'm saying if its something that's based on the car being overweight and stressing the wheels or track that is a problem. Also, yeah, I'm taking into account that the ride actually valleyed...
 
^I can't believe it's got much to do with the train being overweight. I mean, there's no way on earth that Gerstlauer have made the wrong calculations. Especially for the wheels.
 
You may very well be right. Just seemed like a bit of an odd incident to occur with a ride that is only in its, what, 3rd season barely?
 
^True, I agree that it's a bit odd, especially if all the trains are running slowly.
 
spicy said:
I would have thought that its pretty impossible for a cherry picker to pull a coaster train?

Its a strange one thats for sure, something that I have never seen before.

It seems rediculous but maybe Eurofighter trains have some sort of anti-rollback brakes on the wheels? :?

Is there any other incidents of Eurofighters stalling?
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Trains aren't that heavy. I used to pull an entire Vampire train myself. Its no trouble for a Cherry Picker.

Single car coasters like this often valley during testing, its not an uncommon thing. Dragons Fury used to Valley about once a fortnight.
 
^True, but that is on quite an incline. I can push a car along a flat road, but would struggle to get one up my street, which doesn't have that much on an incline. ;)
 
They weren't actually pulling it with the cherry picker. They attached a rope to the car, connected a manual winch to the rope and then looped it up over the track at the very top of the overbank. Two guys then took it in turns (about 30 seconds each) manually winching the train up the track at a very very slow pace. The cherry picker was there to provide a platform for them to stand on whilst winching.

Even with all the leverage provided by the winch, the two engineers still looked shattered after 30 seconds.

They would also have needed to re-secure the train, move the winch to another location and carry on as in the position they left it in last night it would not have had the clearance to make it over the top. I imagine its sorted now though as they would have been working on it overnight or this morning.

Wonder why the nations thrill capital can't afford to use an automatic powered winch. :P
 
^ It didn't stall in that place as we first thought. It did valley (where it rolls back to a low point on the track) and was then winched and clamped in the position in the photo.
 
I forgot to keep up with this story after seeing the intial pic on CF. Thank god it has been explained why it was stopped in that position. I found it so incredibly strange (and I didn't believe it had actually stopped there)!
 
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