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- From: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Colossus vs. La Montana Rusa
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.203956.759@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov20.010109.18690@megatek.com> <1992Nov20.152312.9720@engage.pko.dec.com> <1992Nov20.211831.6091@pmafire.inel.gov> <1992Nov23.193028.1583@megatek.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:39:56 GMT
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- >I, unfortunately, never got to ride the original Colossus. I believe
- >Magic Mountain shut the ride down after the first season and completely
- >reprofiled sections of the ride to make it more "liveable" not only to
- >most of the general public, but also to the mechanics and carpenters.
- >With the original Colossus, the mechanics I used to work with said that
- >they would often have to go out at night and tighten down and check
- >certain sections of track because the trains went through them
- >completely on their upstop wheels.
-
- Why, then, has the profile remained the same on la Montana Rusa??
- It has the same amount of maintanence needed as the original Colossus,
- and is from what I'm told even more brutal in sections ... why
- has the Mexico coaster remained true to the IAD design whereas
- Colossus is only a shadow now of it's former self? Is the American
- public that wimpy??
-
-
- Buck, with a baited question
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