RMC Wooden Coaster to Silver Dollar City

http://rcdb.com/10582.htm

There was also a news article I found on sdcfans.com:

A recent article in the Spokane Journal of Business profiled a newcomer to the business of roller coaster design and manufacturing: Rocky Mountain Coasters of Hayden, Idaho. Rocky Mountain has raised eyebrows recently with the completion of a massive re-build of Six Flag's Over Texas' Texas Giant wooden coaster using the company's revolutionary "Topper Track" technology that involves utilizing steel rails on a traditional wooden frame. The firm has gone on to apply their new track to several existing coasters with much success, but as the linked article explains, the firm has their sights set higher than simply refurbishing existing coasters. The company will apparently open their first coaster completely designed and built from the ground up right here at Silver Dollar City in 2013.


The article says nothing specifically about the Silver Dollar City coaster, but goes on to note more of Rocky Mountain's innovations, including a new train design the firm says will be "revolutionary for the industry." Furthermore, Rocky Mountain's combination of track and new trains will allow for their wooden-hybrid coasters to go upside down and perform maneuvers unheard of for wooden coasters heretofore.


The final detail the article gives in relation to the firm's 2013 projects is that they have a combined investment total of $12 million. With the other project being a refurbishment of Six Flag's Fiesta Texas' existing Rattler wooden coaster, the bulk of this total will obviously be going to Silver Dollar City. One would estimate that if the refurbishments to Six Flags' coaster are no more than a few million to replace their troublesome first drop, then $9-10 million would be spent on Silver Dollar City's new coaster, nearly what it cost to transform the Texas Giant into the hulking thrill machine it is after the Rocky Mountain make-over.


Further speculation will certainly revolve around how much of a thrill this new coaster will provide and whether or not it will include the new trains and inversions the firm is obviously eager to show off. One has to consider that Silver Dollar City and its parent company are usually more conservative with their ride choices, but anything seems to be possible at this point.

http://www.sdcfans.com/news/140

This also is saying that Rattler at SFFT will be getting the Iron Horse renovation.

Edit: Sorry I put this in the wrong forum section. If a mod could move this that would be great. Thanks.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Following.

The first supports are already up and most of the footers poured.

so, is this wood coaster going to be just another wood coaster, or are they going to deck this one out and add a barrel roll or cobra roll to it, since they claim there trains can do almost anything

i just hope it is a good looking coaster

^I wouldn't get your hopes up dude. But I'm sure they're going to deck it out with plenty of airtime and overbanks!

I think this is what the track is going to look like:



which isn't as ugly as New Texas Giant, but it's not great.

Does it really matter all that much what the track looks like?

Yeah, it will be interesting to see if their first custom build is all topper track or iron horse track. Looks like we will know for sure shortly.

^If it is all done with Iron Horse track then it really can't be a wood coaster. Shouldn't it be classified as steel then?

[Metazoanhaddock]

wood or steel in this case has more to do with the support structure/main components. the bulk of the ride will still be made of wood, and therefore, to the GP, it will be classified and looked upon as wooden. as for the issue of topper track vs. iron horse, to me it seems that if they're boasting inversions of some sort, they'll be using iron horse track to maintain the structural integrity and to guard against possible warping dues to the strain inversions could potentially cause to the wooden underside of the topper track.

Also I just don't see the point of putting topper track on an original coaster. To me, topper track seems like a method of re-tracking, not tracking.

[Metazoanhaddock]

^exactly

The purpose of topper track is to make the ride smoother, it decreases the frequency of re-tracking on the coasters parts that have topper track so it makes sense to use it for an original construction to lower the maintenance cost down the line.

[yoshifreak]

I don't know if anyone else has been following this lately, but it's been growing quite rapidly. There's a whole bunch of pictures at the site below, but I've excerpted two of the more eye catching ones.





http://www.coasterfriends.de/forum/4097-neu-2013-holzachterbahn-silver-dollar-city-2.html

Looks insane.

Wtf is going on in that first pic? O_o

Over bank!!

It almost looks like a setup to a zero-G roll or something.

ZGR my friend, ZGR...
Damn

That looks really weird... Weirdly cool.

[mkingy]

Should be very interesting to see how this turns out. First true wooden structure inversion...

[gouldy]

Originally posted by mkingy

Should be very interesting to see how this turns out. First true wooden structure inversion...

I nearly whaled in with "Son of Beast HERP A DERP", before quite rapidly realising that I was being a bit dim

everybody neglecting the fact that it might be a NTAG overbank, either way it looks pretty awesome and makes me wish I could go out there

Read today that the first pic, is actually a inversion and pics will be showing up soon of it.

Gimmick.

[jayman]

waste of wood. they could do just fine with steel supports if that's what they want, and save the wood for a wooden coaster