The Fate of the Gulf Coaster (Gurnee)
- jonrev
- Tidal Wave
- Posts: 429
- Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:42 pm
- Location: Grayslake, Illinois
- Contact:
The Fate of the Gulf Coaster (Gurnee)
We all know that the Gurnee Gulf Coaster didn't last more than a year. But I've been wondering, whatever happened to it after its removal. It doesn't make sense for them to have it scrapped because it was still pretty new. Did it ever go to another park? Is it still around somewhere? Or did GAm waste a coaster?
Gurnee Ride Op - 2007
- m11stephen2
- Yankee Clipper
- Posts: 68
- Joined: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:02 pm
- Location: Milwaukee, WI
- Contact:
- Shockwavegirl
- Yankee Clipper
- Posts: 55
- Joined: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:53 pm
Yeah, well fires don't generally close a ride down for good. Do you know how many fires they get on the cars on Raceway a year? My friend's Christy and Brad worked on those rides the year we worked there, and at least every other day they told me about how one of the cars caught on fire, or jumped the track and hit the fence. I do see though how they would consider a kiddie coaster with 4 fires in one year a little disturbing though.
- redfishpaw
- Tidal Wave
- Posts: 510
- Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:58 am
- Location: Milwaukee
- Contact:
The Santa Clara one had a habit of derailing. I was trained to operate it in '78 or '79 and was told that it had a habit of derailing and what to do when it did. I only operated it a couple of days and on one of those days it did derail. What I mean was that only one set of wheels came off. not the whole train flying off and sown into the ground.
As far as a fire. What is there to cause the fire. The only thing is the small motor that pulls the chain that pulls the cars up the hill. The breaks were totaly mechanical friction type and cann't cause a fire because the friction wouldn't las long enough to create enough heat. This ride was as technically as simple as you could get.
As far as a fire. What is there to cause the fire. The only thing is the small motor that pulls the chain that pulls the cars up the hill. The breaks were totaly mechanical friction type and cann't cause a fire because the friction wouldn't las long enough to create enough heat. This ride was as technically as simple as you could get.
- m11stephen2
- Yankee Clipper
- Posts: 68
- Joined: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:02 pm
- Location: Milwaukee, WI
- Contact:
- redfishpaw
- Tidal Wave
- Posts: 510
- Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:58 am
- Location: Milwaukee
- Contact:
Here is a nice ACE article (PDF link) about the SC Gulf coaster with a couple photos - pages 2 and 3
http://www.mocedades.com/temp/ncd6.pdf# ... %20COASTER'
http://www.mocedades.com/temp/ncd6.pdf# ... %20COASTER'
- BrianPlencner
- Tidal Wave
- Posts: 209
- Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:07 pm
- Location: Carpentersville, IL
- redfishpaw
- Tidal Wave
- Posts: 510
- Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:58 am
- Location: Milwaukee
- Contact: