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The Accident apparently was on "Feuerdrache".

Sounds like one train was stopped on the brake run before entering the station when a second train ran into the back of it.

It's surprising this can happen with all the safeguards in place.
Germany usually is very thorough when it comes to inspections and such.
At least no one died in the accident.

Just last week a woman slipped out of another roller coaster in a smaller park in Germany, fell 26 feet and unfortunately was killed.


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I don't understand why the recent few years we have seen so many block violations (and not the "brakes were wet" kind of violations. Thankfully they've been low speed around the station but I have to wonder if this is just the quality of the programming or if there are issues with newer PLC controllers/switches themselves. It's confounding to me how a ride can run a program over and over and over for sometimes years and then all of a sudden make a mistake.
 
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That's......that's a lift hill. So this one isn't a shuttle.
You have seen how some parks can make a shuttle with a lift, correct? Gerstlauer comes to mind. I don’t see why they couldn’t be doing something similar to that. Granted most of them are launched, but almost all of them have some kind of backward element.
 
I'm renaming the thread. Does anyone have an updated layout prediction?
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😅 (Modified from image embedded in tweet from @cslkenny above)
Actually, I think the first helix will be different than pictured. It looks to me like it will drop to the ground and then spiral up. The rest looks accurate.


And yes lift hills can be used on shuttles but I haven't seen a shuttle coaster have a lift with a curve at the top like this, and there's a support for the drop after it.
 
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😅 (Modified from image embedded in tweet from @cslkenny above)
Actually, I think the first helix will be different than pictured. It looks to me like it will drop to the ground and then spiral up. The rest looks accurate.


And yes lift hills can be used on shuttles but I haven't seen a shuttle coaster have a lift with a curve at the top like this, and there's a support for the drop after it.
Switch track. Think like switchback at zdts. Like that same concept.
 
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