One of the Zippin Pippin's trains have been added to the standby lane on the coaster and the automatic safety gates are partially installed. The Zippin Pippin continues to inch closer to testing and eventually rides for paying customers (now less than 20 days away). For the latest pictures keep reading below.
The big news is one of the trains is in place on the service track. Each car seats six and there are five cars per train. So there is room for up to 30 riders per train.
The other train is on site, each car on a pallet along the north end of turn 1 and 3. With the cars on the pallet it's easy to see the three sets of wheels.
Under the train on the track you can see the upstop and centering wheels along with the anti rollback pawl.
Back on the loading platform the operator control panel appears to be nearly set.
The automatic safety gates are being installed.
Under the loading platform you can just start to see the mechanism that will open and close the gates.
The area to the north and south of the coaster is starting to be graded to get it ready for it's big opening.
Some of the large piles of earth left at the site from the original excavation are starting to be removed.
It would appear we are getting close to some of the first test runs for the coaster. If I hear any details about testing I will be sure to pass them along. In other news there is a contest being run by the city to be on the first official ride of the coaster on May 7th. Children and adults are invited to submit an essay entitled "What does Bay Beach Amusement Park mean to me?". If you are interest in entering (I know my kids are!) check out the official
website.
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