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[Amused to Death]

This video, included once again, is instructive in that regard. Look up and down hill from the splice job...

Typical construction crew. One guy does all the work while 5-6 others stand around and watch.

 

[joelkfla]

Typical construction crew. One guy does all the work while 5-6 others stand around and watch.

It looks that one guy is the expert splicer. The others are there to provide muscle; they may actually be exerting more energy than the one guy.

 

[MisterPenguin]

This video, included once again, is instructive in that regard. Look up and down hill from the splice job...

0:26 - guy gets clocked on the head

 

[trainplane3]

Turn looks kinda neat with the ends capped off:

 

[Nubs70]

Turn looks kinda neat with the ends capped off:

Looks like the stands are to hold cable over roadways while stringing/splicing takes place.

 

[Paper straw fan]

If there is a 50% chance of a fiery death during a ride on these, it’s still preferable to bus transportation to/from Saratoga Springs.

 

[trainplane3]

If there is a 50% chance of a fiery death during a ride on these, it’s still preferable to bus transportation to/from Saratoga Springs.

Personally, I've never had much issue with buses to and from Saratgoa.


That is until it's 10pm, the bus is full, and the driver decides to pull a stunt out of Initial D as we go around the Grandstand roundabout and everyone falls over each other. That was a good time.

 

[joelkfla]

@LiftBlog -- what are the white pulleys on the top crossbar of the towers? I don't see them on videos of other Doppelmayr installations. Could they be part of a lightning protection system? After installation, there's a cable attached that looks similar to the cables on rooftop lightning protection systems.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Personally, I've never had much issue with buses to and from Saratgoa.


That is until it's 10pm, the bus is full, and the driver decides to pull a stunt out of Initial D as we go around the Grandstand roundabout and everyone falls over each other. That was a good time.

So you are saying that you have, indeed, had an issue with buses to and from Saratoga?

 

[Rteetz]

 

[MisterPenguin]

The sniper nest is looking nice and comfy!

 

[SLUSHIE]

I wonder why they went with the square ends on the turn station. It's like Disney was completely determined to make every station look different.

 

[larryz]

0:26 - guy gets clocked on the head

I guess you could say that these guys are outstranding in their field...

 

[MisterPenguin]

I guess you could say that these guys are outstranding in their field...

I like that twist to that phrase.

 

[larryz]

I like that twist to that phrase.

I can't take all the credit -- it came to me in a cable.

 

[joelkfla]

I can't take all the credit -- it came to me in a cable.

You must be a distant relation of Bennett Cerf.

 

[larryz]

You must be a distant relation of Bennett Cerf.

Well, as they say in Southern California -- Cerf's Up!

 

[kainsel]

Any word on when the cable pull through will happen? Heard it was at a staging site.

 

[danlb_2000]

Any word on when the cable pull through will happen? Heard it was at a staging site.

Rumor is early December

 

[Disneyrailfan1996]

If there is narration during the trips, any guesses as to who will be doing it? Is it still going to be Tom Kane as heard on the monorail and busses? Or are they going to hire someone else to do it or bring back one of the previous monorail narrators like Joe Hursh (his voice is the best IMO)?