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Err, this thread wasn't highlighted as 'unread' for some reason. I didn't know there were any responses to it. :( Yeah, Chris - I don't know of any pieces at the employee entrance. There used to be similar pieces where the staging department is, but that's unrelated to the monorail.

Maybe you're thinking of something else ?
 
Yeah, could be something else, there could very well be nothing there. I have an active imagination.
 
Too bad the monorail was taken out. I never experienced it. :(

Any chance of a comeback?
 
Zippy chance of a comeback. The park and brewery are no longer under the same ownership. Wouldn't have come back even if they were though, unfortunately.
 
Maybe they can take the monorail pieces (assuming they're still somewhere within the park) and reconstruct a monorail from the Scotland and Bavaria parking lots to the front entrance. The park doesn't need a monorail as it has a train and skyride. And I don't know about you all, but going across the I-64 in a tram on a crowded day from those seemingly banished parking lots is not fun. I've been stuck there twice, and both times it has taken me over an hour to get to the main entrance of the park from the time I paid for parking. :mad:

This is my 100th post. Yippee!
 
!. its not I 64, Interstates dont have stop lights. 2. They do need some sort of trans port. I was there on the forth for the fireworks and it took over 2 hours to get back to my car.
 
Yeah, putting a new transport over route 60 would be convenient. If something like that did get approval from JCC, it wouldn't use any of the old components, if they exist still, it would be a maglev system or something similar.
 
Chris said:
Yeah, putting a new transport over route 60 would be convenient. If something like that did get approval from JCC, it wouldn't use any of the old components, if they exist still, it would be a maglev system or something similar.
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Haven't you heard about Norfolk's 8 years in the making maglev :p

That I think would be a good idea, but I do not see them getting enough use out of it to justify the cost/time to build it
 
I was actually just starting at ODU when they began building the maglev. What a disaster.
 
Chris said:
I was actually just starting at ODU when they began building the maglev. What a disaster.
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I think it was WAY too ambitious of a project for the funding and small size that they have there. AS much as I cannot stand VT, I think theyre size and knowledge/funding that they have could have made a better execution. Then again, they are a research institution. You're an engineer then?
 
No, not an engineer, I was just a fresh faced Freshman the year they started.
 
I don't see why a MagLev would be necessary. There's not even enough time to accelerate to the top speed to get the use out of building one!
 
Franco said:
I don't see why a MagLev would be necessary. There's not even enough time to accelerate to the top speed to get the use out of building one!
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Magnalev is much more efficient than running a tire mono rail. the distance between the two stations would allow it to run probably ~35mph plus run right over rt. 60 and making it quicker. That capacity also be a substantial amount higher than the trams
 
ANYTHING would be better than the trams. And it just seems like a MagLev would be so much more expensive to build.

P.S. I feel like this should be its own thread now. The conversation has been de-railed.

Oops, please excuse the bad pun. :blush:
 
Scoutn757 said:
Chris said:
I was actually just starting at ODU when they began building the maglev. What a disaster.
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I think it was WAY too ambitious of a project for the funding and small size that they have there. AS much as I cannot stand VT, I think theyre size and knowledge/funding that they have could have made a better execution. Then again, they are a research institution. You're an engineer then?
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ODU engineering alum here. Just needed to point out ODU engineers did not build that track/train. It was some company I think called American Maglev Technology from Georgia. They said they knew what they were doing. It worked on the ground, where they tested it. But once they elevated it, it didn't work and they couldn't figure it out. Then some ODU engineers actually started to work on it after it sat there for a few years doing nothing. They have it "working" enough that they use the track as a test track for companies building maglev sleds/trains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_(transport)#Old_Dominion_University

WRT Busch Gardens, a Maglev system would be extremely costly. Especially when there's no operational Maglev system in this country yet.
 
pandorazboxx said:
ODU engineering alum here. Just needed to point out ODU engineers did not build that track/train. It was some company I think called American Maglev Technology from Georgia. They said they knew what they were doing. It worked on the ground, where they tested it. But once they elevated it, it didn't work and they couldn't figure it out. Then some ODU engineers actually started to work on it after it sat there for a few years doing nothing. They have it "working" enough that they use the track as a test track for companies building maglev sleds/trains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_(transport)#Old_Dominion_University

WRT Busch Gardens, a Maglev system would be extremely costly. Especially when there's no operational Maglev system in this country yet.
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Ill be transferring there in a year so don't see me as bashing them. I remember following it with i was ~10 years old, it levitated and shock badly and then problems began. Norfolk's wave/tide or w/e it is called is supposed to be Maglev, correct? I drive past the trains a few times a week
 
Naw, I didn't see that I just have to defend my ODU engineering brethren. BTW the Tide is going to be a light rail, not a Maglev.

What are those tracks that are on the ground there beside the AB plant? You can see them on your way over from the Scotland Parking lot. Do/did they ship beer out on a train?
 
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