I visited the site today and a lot of new activity to note. Before we get into that, I am now the proud owner of one of the Zippin Pippin t-shirts that are being sold to help raise money for the project. Check them out they look great!
Now back to the job site. The first thing I noticed is the beginnings of a fence are in place, right now just the poles are in place but there is a big pile of chain link that I'm sure will be up soon; future pictures will be a bit more challenging!
There is also a sign with a small map showing the approximate location of the coaster, comparing to my assumptions from 8/22/10 it appears to be laid out pretty close to how I thought it would be.
There are also some more parts and pieces starting to show up. Check out the pictures of the anchors that the wooden structure will be bolted to. If I'm correct the small pieces of wood bolted between the steel anchors right now are just to hold them in the proper orientation while they are being anchored into concrete. After the concrete sets these small blocks will be removed and the main columns of the coaster will be bolted into these. The small "L" shape on the bottom will be embedded in the concrete.
The first forms and re-bar appear to be set into place; this may possibly be the beginning of the loading/unloading structure but I can't be sure.
I walked the outside of the entire site where the perimeter of the fence will be set up and took a variety of pictures along the way to help give a feel for the overall size and scope of the site; check out the photo album by clicking on one of the pictures in the "Slideshow" link at the top right of the page for all of the pictures and captions.
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