News Tomorrowland Speedway and Walt Disney World Railroad to be impacted by TRON construction at the Magic Kingdom

[MisterPenguin]

Is it safe to run a train on an Escher optical illusion?!?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Is it safe to run a train on an Escher optical illusion?!?

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Just run it at night. Works perfectly on Space Mountain. No one questions the safety of what they can’t see!

Mickey’s Magical Fireworks Railroad Party would easily charge $149/guest.

 

[dmw]

It took only 6 years to complete the transcontinental railroad.
Completed in 1869, it was built almost entirely by hand.

IF the WDW railroad opens this December it will have taken over 4 years to complete.

This type of argument is really getting old. This is not about finishing the RR. This is about finishing Tron enough so that they could re-lay the tracks that had been removed for the construction.

Complain all you want about the Tron timeline, but the train timeline complaint has no basis.

 

[fgmnt]

I have heard December or January for the WDWRR. At a minimum, it is planned to open before TRON.

My way too optimistic and umpteenth-adjusted expectation was train by 1/15, previews by 2/15, open by UCF spring break.

 

[ToTBellHop]

My way too optimistic and umpteenth-adjusted expectation was train by 1/15, previews by 2/15, open by UCF spring break.

No idea when they want TRON open now. They delayed it due to a marketing decision that has nothing to do with when it could open. An extended preview window is certainly possible.

 

[mikeymouse]

If anyone is working in proximity to the tracks, I'm sure they won't run it.

 

[lazyboy97o]

If anyone is working in proximity to the tracks, I'm sure they won't run it.

The replaced a monorail station while the monorail remained operational.

 

[James Alucobond]

At the current pace of work, pretty much everything in the immediate area should be done by the time the rest of the track is completed and tested anyway, so it’s probably not much of a factor.

 

[mikeymouse]

Right, but if Jim and Bob have to carry equipment across the tracks, I can't see them allowing that being active.

 

[mikeymouse]

 

[_caleb]

They better not be playing that through the background music speakers

 

[DCBaker]

 

[gorillaball]

Right, but if Jim and Bob have to carry equipment across the tracks, I can't see them allowing that being active.

Because it would be very hard to have someone there saying - yo, train coming do not cross.

 

[G00fyDad]

Because it would be very hard to have someone there saying - yo, train coming do not cross.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Too many Floridians see crossing gates as a challenge.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Because it would be very hard to have someone there saying - yo, train coming do not cross.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[Nthderivative]

Because it would be very hard to have someone there saying - yo, train coming do not cross.

Guests crossed over the train track with a cast member stationed at it while the removal of the speedramps took place

 

[ToTBellHop]

Guests crossed over the train track with a cast member stationed at it while the removal of the speedramps took place

Yes and there was a non-negative number of casualties!

 

[ToTBellHop]

Looking like this could open before Christmas.