What a difference a week makes. Last week during my visit to the Bay Beach Zippin Pippin Roller Coaster construction site the wind chills were sub-zero, and the site was covered in snow and ice making walking dangerous. This week temperatures were in the mid 40's with light rain, melting snow, and a muddy sloppy construction sight making walking messy. Despite the swings in weather a lot of progress was made. The updates are below.
The first big news is the lift chain is in place and nearly complete. There is one small section remaining to be installed along the return between the bottom of the lift hill and the motor house.
There was also a lot of progress in the area of the loading platform/transfer station. Let's start underneath. In the building beneath the loading platform an air compressor has been added. This compressor will supply air to the brake run and the automatic gates that will open and close to allow people to load the coaster.
Just above this area workers have started trimming the ends of the decking on the platform.
Most of the transfer table trolleys are in place and temporarily secured to each other with some boards until the track sections can be added.
There are still two trolleys to add.
Last week these brakes were added to the final section of track before the transfer table.
These last brakes will be added in the transfer table area to hold the trains in place when riders are loading and unloading from the trains.
A lot of steel track has been added, the steel now goes all the way around turn 3 and down the next drop.
Continues up the last hill before the out and back.
And comes just over the crest of this hill, just below this area is where queue enters the zone 1 and 2 oval.
The laminated layers of wood track now go all the way out to the turn around, go around the turn around, and are just starting to head back.
I ended my visit with a north facing panorama and some very muddy boots.
