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Mine Ride Construction Update
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New picture from the Disney Parks Blog showing the the "rubble" has now been painted and they have started installing the railroad ties. Looks like the rubble is the final look.
Tom
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Not at all on the same page....not even in the same book. Your book came from the Fiction section.
Tom
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New picture from the Disney Parks Blog showing the the "rubble" has now been painted and they have started installing the railroad ties. Looks like the rubble is the final look.
Excellent - we have closure! It's just there to resemble a pile of dirt and rubble, and is indeed the finished product.
Tom
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Yeah, and once we see how the storyline will progress through the ride, it will also make more sense.
RSoxNo1
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I suspect that will be a barrier with water on the opposite side.
Clamman73
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New picture from the Disney Parks Blog showing the the "rubble" has now been painted and they have started installing the railroad ties. Looks like the rubble is the final look.
What is that red thing spanning the top of the track??? Something to do with the installation of the half-logs?
Pixiedustmaker
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Mock-up of the lower dimensions of the mine car to make sure that none of the cosmetic stuff comes close to the ride vehicle. Would be my guess.
Clamman73
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Ah yes...that's probably it...and everyone seems to think Parks Blog will have a pic of a mine train car tomorrow that has arrived on-site somewhere...
Pixiedustmaker
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The real ride vehicles they probably wouldn't want on a construction site. No need to chip them and bang them testing out the track and when installing the cosmetic stuff.
Clamman73
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True...wonder if this is really a test one to check tolerances of an actually production vehicle, or the like on a section somewhere hidden.
As Pixiedustmaker suggested the red thing is likely used for testing tolerances. Wouldn't make sense to you a real car for this yet not just because it could be damaged but it would have to be pushed around manually for now since there are a lot of things blocking the track. The red thing looks pretty light so it can be easily pushed around and move to different sections of track if needed.
This picture showed up early last month of what looks like one of the vehicles backstage at DHS but the consensus at that time was that is was a prop and not one of the actual vehicles.
https://twitter.com/Kryptonlogic/status/330788414129569794/photo/1
Mike730
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New picture from the Disney Parks Blog showing the the "rubble" has now been painted and they have started installing the railroad ties. Looks like the rubble is the final look.
It's kinda funny how detailed some areas are while there are still parts of the mountain with nothing but steel. I guess for ride tests sake its best to get the track cosmetics done first.
Since they are just putting up the mesh on the front of the mountain it's possible that they don't have any work for the rock work crew up there at the moment, so they are working in other areas instead.
Pixiedustmaker
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The big tip-off is that it is just about half of the wheel assembly for the actual ride vehicles! They also wouldn't use something as expensive as the track to transport construction materials around, would just be a nice opportunity to damage the the track, not that you could fit much on this thing.
The constructed sides of the test section probably serve no other purpose that being cut and welded to be the exact shape of the bottom of a ride vehicle, (though this ride is more complex as you've got a swinging section). If you're a guy doing rockwork near the track, it would be real handy to have this puppy so you could push it over a section of track and see if you have the right amount of clearance (not necessarily that it just has any clearance, there is a number in inches). Sure, somebody could in trouble for leaving only 2" clearance when some other number was called for in a specific turn.
In terms of tolerances, the engineering for the track has been completed, and its ability to hold x amount of weight is pretty much fixed. The big testing will be with dummies to try to predict how the new ride mechanism actually would effect guests.
Tom
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Yes.
The red trolley is used to check clearances, while also ensuring that the track doesn't become deformed during construction. They traverse it around the entire track system to make sure the rails remain EXACTLY the correct distance apart, and aren't compromised by surrounding construction, loads or equipment.
Pixiedustmaker
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That is assuredly the case. If they paid for four months of rockwork artists' time, they they've got to make use of that time efficiently. If they waited for all the cement to dry before doing finishing work, then the construction time would really increase, needlessly so.
Pixiedustmaker
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I don't think this rig has the electronics to do that (I might be wrong) . . . with older track construction yes, there was issues with tubular rails and bending. But 7DMT was *very* solidly built in a prefab manner, which decreases manufacturing errors and increases lifespan. A lot of the monitoring and measuring of the track pieces was probably done during the installation process, and actually, before the track segments were installed some precise measurements were no doubt made.