Originally posted by NoLimitzki But chain dogs are essentially hinged hooks. It doesn't matter where they are because they should simply unhook when the train picks up more speed than the chain, or it reaches the end of the chain. My hypothesis: Pre-drops were used so the first car could start the ...

I know on Tatsu only the second and third cars actually have chain dogs. The end of the lift is placed so when those two cars get to the top, the weight of the cars pulls the rest of the train over. I would imagine that in earlier years there was a different design for the chain dogs or more cars we...

I can just see someone seriously injuring their back doing this. Most of the people in that video were twisting with their backs. That has to get painful after a while.

I'm a ride op at Magic Mountain and we don't do a visual check in the same way they do. After we secure the train, we do a visual scan while counting to five in our heads. After that we can give the all clear and dispatch the train.

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (still called Marine World when I first went.)

This isn't my first job and I realize companies will pay there employees as little as they can get away with. My point is ride ops are responsible for thousands of lives every day, but the guy in the Porky Pig costume gets paid more. It just doesn't make sense, then again what does anymore besides a...

I got hired as a ride operator at SFMM this year. Still waiting to be scheduled for training though. You would think a park would want to pay their ride ops better, they have a lot of responsibility.

Hi guys, I've been lurking the forums for a while now and figured I might as well get an account so I can participate. Also, I've been downloading No Limits Tracks and I have to say this is one of the best collections I've seen.