05-29-2007, 04:30 PM
|  | Minetrain Poster | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: 10 minutes from Kennywood
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| | | What is up with the phantom?
When I went to kennywood I waited 45 mins to ride the phantom, and i was about to get on and they closed the ride. The stopped the lift with people on the trian climbing it? Now I've herd this isn't the first time it happened this year, and it has to do with the brakes, but those brakes were just put in last year? Does anyone know whats going on? |
05-29-2007, 04:58 PM
|  | LETS GO HAWKS | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Steel City Age: 16
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| | | I'm not sure, but I do remember being on a train when they stopped it once on the lift, I don't know why though. It was last August 2006
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05-29-2007, 10:16 PM
|  | Peanut Diva Poster | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Canfield, Ohio Age: 27
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| | | First off, coasters get stopped on the lift all the time for whatever reason. Even with people on it. If they stop the lift that doesn't mean the mag brakes are not working. They shut down rides for many reasons.
How long was the ride down?
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05-30-2007, 08:10 AM
| | Minetrain Poster | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: 10 minutes from Kennywood
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Originally Posted by Katie  First off, coasters get stopped on the lift all the time for whatever reason. Even with people on it. If they stop the lift that doesn't mean the mag brakes are not working. They shut down rides for many reasons.
How long was the ride down? | 20 mins or so, The ride attendent said it was the brakes, I asked. |
05-31-2007, 09:08 PM
| | LETS GO HAWKS | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Steel City Age: 16
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| | | For me it was like 5, everbody kept bugging the attendant to give us an extra ride without a wait, but he wouldn't give in.
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05-31-2007, 09:12 PM
|  | Looping Poster | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Eden Prairie, MN Age: 22
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| | | Kennywood must have an issue with thier brakes. I personally witnessed a station brakes failure last summer on the Racer. |
05-31-2007, 09:32 PM
|  | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Age: 16
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| | | Did the ride just keep on going into another circut? |
05-31-2007, 09:33 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2007
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| | | When a coaster is stopped on the lift it usually means someone had a camera or cellphone out or they took off their seatbelt. |
05-31-2007, 09:54 PM
| | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Age: 16
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| | | ok I was wondering |
05-31-2007, 10:04 PM
|  | A fan boy of the good stuff | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Age: 22
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Originally Posted by Kennywoodinfo 20 mins or so, The ride attendent said it was the brakes, I asked. | I honestly have doubts as to whether or not the attendant knew what was going on... I know that as a ride-op/attendant all you know is that on the op pannel the "fault light" starts flashing, and you call the mechanics and they fix it...
edit: Some may have even e-stopped it, thats a common cause to a ride stopping on the lift, because someones doing something wrong or whatever...
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