If you look at this picture http://www.sfgamworld.com/gallery/v/SFGAm/IronWolf/IronWolf001.jpg.html you can see that the track is made to have a block section there, why is there no hardware for it?
I have seen this and wondered many times.
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Iron Wolf Brake Run
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"The rides are GREAT, The shows are GREAT, the fun is GREAT. At Marriott"s GREAT AMERICA!"
a better question would be to ask why there is a gap in the track near the brake run... next time you ride it look in the brake run there are a pair of supports that don't look like the other ones surrounding the small gap...
Remember, there's nothing but air beneath the chair.
the option was there on IW to add a 3'rd train, which was never needed. In order to have a 3'rd you need the block brake, so that was made like that just in case.
No idea on the gap, but SFGAm has added so many supports to IW, I'd say probably a quarter of the supports there are not original to the ride. Will keep an eye out for this gap, though I dont plan on going back to the park before fright fest. Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder
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Plus it needed to stall for a bit because a service road is right underneath that part of the ride so they just made straight track and built the rest of the ride on the other side of the service road.
I never even noticed that until someone pointed it out to me last winter...I dont think it was even like that before then? The official explanation given to me was "it was made to expand when it gets warmer" but it seems there is still a large gap and its totally obvious when walking under it. In addition to that all the problems they are having with the footers I think the ride is just falling apart. Last edited by BP317 on August 26th, 2008, 10:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I don't see any gap?
well I'd hate to say but, if they would put that break run in, the corkscrew would go through a lot better.
This has been discussed before. Please do a topic search next time.
post104026.html?hilit=iron%20wolf#p104026 Frank
AHH BACK SEAT MOD!!!
SHUN! SSHUN! poor wolfie rip
 ( hopewe get a neww bm wingrider for next year!11!
^^ Wow, you sound just like one of the mods.
That topic is two freaking years old. Give me a break with your "please do a topic search next time" stuff.
Iron Wolf has an attitude problem, no matter what it's always rough.
SF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11 SF trips 11 =7
I did a topic search this time, but I think my computer just plain hates me since even when i search for topics that I know exist it says there are no matches. But lets get back on topic now.
"The rides are GREAT, The shows are GREAT, the fun is GREAT. At Marriott"s GREAT AMERICA!"
How? Wouldn't you go throught the corkscrew slower then?
I was told that the reason why the corkscrew sucks so bad is because the actual corkscrew was designed for a slower speed.
You're on to something!!!
If it was going to make the corkscrew better they should have put the brake run in, I wish they would have put it in. Why would they make a corkscrew for a slow speed and then have it go throgh the corkscrew at a high speed?
The maintained speed and intensity of the ride is what makes it awesome in my opinion and something very rare on newer B&Ms. I dont get how a trim would make the ride any better, instead of being rough it would be rough and slow.
^Ya, it is rough enough we don't need to be slow and rough.
^That corkscrew seems way too fast. It's the worst part of the ride.
Maybe A Great Day Is Just What You Need This Year
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It would not be rough and slow, before the lift is it rough there????? "The rides are GREAT, The shows are GREAT, the fun is GREAT. At Marriott"s GREAT AMERICA!"
No. That and the lift hill is the only place it isn't rough.
 Maybe A Great Day Is Just What You Need This Year
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^^ No but you only do a turn there and of course the lift is not, but the rest of the ride is.
Well it could be rough up the lift....Ever gone in the second car of Demon ?
Maybe A Great Day Is Just What You Need This Year
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hey that car is fun!!!! and the reason it is not rough is because you are slower. "The rides are GREAT, The shows are GREAT, the fun is GREAT. At Marriott"s GREAT AMERICA!"
^ See, if they put those brakes on Iron Wolf the corkscrew would be rougher.
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