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I'm assuming that this will be the tunnel that the train is in. I hope that it moves forward in the tunnel toward the track to make it more dynamic.
It’s barely been 80 for the last 3 weeks. Extreme heat didn’t cause this.
“ The incident happened around 4 p.m. Officials say the front wheels of car three on the train went off the track by about two inches. It caused cars two and three to separate. Park officials say new safety protocols worked as designed, stopping the train. It also kept all of the remaining cars upright.”
https://www.ky3.com/2023/05/25/silver-dollar-city-shuts-down-popular-steam-train-ride-following-incident-thursday/
SDC wouldn’t even be here today if they never changed. They’re a business, just because their theme is about the past doesn’t mean that they have to be stuck in the past with business.Everything changes. There is no future otherwise.
SDC has never been about the future: it is--or has been--explicitly about the past.
I would be perfectly satisfied--nay, delighted!--with the SDC of 1970, prior to ALL of the coasters.
I guess that makes sense. I assumed that the cameras were more of a turnkey rental program and not necessarily an outright purchase.It’s more like a lease through Kodak. They provide all the equipment (ride cameras, photo cameras, computers, servers, screens, etc) and their tech support. I’m not sure how much SDC pays for it when they went in-house, but I’d assume that amount would increase for each on-ride location they add. They planned doing the same thing for Mystic River, as in a photo-op location like TT, but COVID ruined both that idea and TT’s photo-op.
While the cause of the train incident is undisclosed, it has been confirmed that it is at the fault of no SDC employee. I am close with the train crew, and they are so passionate in their job that they wouldn't have let any of this happen. The maintenance foreman also declared it is nobody in the train maintenance crew's fault. It is extremely hard to wreck SDC's train unless you are going extremely fast, and considering the train settled on the inside of the curve, speed was not a factor.
I believe it had to do with a kingpin connecting a truck to the frame of Car no. 3. In an on-ride POV filmed 4 hours prior to the wreck, you can see the car is riding a lot rougher than the others, especially on the curve it derailed.