anyone know about this ride?

[jack.bell]

does anyone know/remember anything about a mine train coaster that drops verticaly down the side/middle of a mine lift tower (the tall tower above a mine where the wheel spins and lift/drops the lift car down/up the mine shaft)? i remember seeing something about it a while ago but cant remember anything about the location of it or if it even/ever exsisted?

thanks

jack

 

[davidm]

This?

http://www.rcdb.com/1481.htm

 

[jack.bell]

yea that would be the one!

thank you david

jack

 

[DjTommyB]

Isn't that always shut all the time? Cause a member on here went there sometime this year/last year and it was closed for them.

 

[Ormerod]

That looks really good to be fair, for a mine coaster. Very interesting.

 

[andrus]

Mine train? Ain't this more of a dive machine hence it only has a big vertical drop and.. well.. nothing more?

 

[Ormerod]

No it's more of a mine train with a vertical drop :--D

 

[andrus]

Haha ok ^^ although I don't see were the "train" part comes from..

 

[divvie_dave]

A dive into a deep shaft......

 

[dj-fireball999]

Looks rather weird, but I wanna ride it! :--D

 

[Danzibarr]

Ha, quite a good video;

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAClDKuOcGI[/youtube]

 

[STC]

6.3 G's is insane.

I think that's probably a possible reason it was closed for so long, maybe some re-profiling. I think the clue there is "Designed by Nauta Bussink, manufactured by local companies and built by Gold Reef City".

 

[dj-fireball999]

Has anyone here ridden it? As for the companies that made it, I'm either expecting people to say it's unbelievably awesome (like The Ultimate) or a big, metal joke.

 

[divvie_dave]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICyfbZ1-qJU[/youtube]

all i could find... it seems at one point there was a chain lift, and now a vertical lift... or the other way around..... interesting!!!

 

[Ben]

^That must be what it's like now, because it has OTSRs in that video, instead of lap-bars.


Which saddens me.

 

[SaiyanHajime]

I LOVE the lift structure. Apparently it's an authentic tower from a gold mine. Which would explain it's coolness.

I remember seeing this thing a lot back when Oblivion was still talked about lots. Didn't know what It was called or anything. So it's awesome to have it brought up!

 

[Mark]

It certainly has mammoth quantities of theming which just looks excessive but amazing at the same time...

Oh Saw, you really do suck!

 

[Tjex1]

Yes, look on the Coaster Types section of CF and it is under dive machines...