So here's the quick story. SROS' chain broke and had to be welded as a temporary fix. SFNE immeadiately ordered a new one from some company in the states as a long term fix It arrived, and it turned out to be faulty, in other words, it wouldn't work or pull the trains up the hill. So now SROS is still down after over a weak of inactivity, waiting for a lift chain to arrive from Intamin in Switzerland. It will then take at least 36 hours to install this mammoth piece.
Just a heads up for anyone planning to go. The new chain hadn't arrived when I revisited on 8/20, so it won't be open until at least 8/22-23, at the earliest.
And all I had to do was slip the parking booth person a few dollars [;)]