The Loch Ness Monster

[GrandpaD]

From the park itself-
"The construction took months, as engineers welded sections of track together, totaling 3,240 feet. As the team worked their way around the track, following the direction of travel, they noticed a big problem. The last section of track, leading from the second loop to the station, was curved the wrong way (toward what is today, Alpengeist). Engineers had to heat up the track and bend it back in the right direction. If you ride the coaster today, you may feel a very slight jolt to the right. This is where the track was corrected. "

The Loch Ness Monster Finally Sighted

That was the headline back in 1978 when The Loch Ness Monster first opened. At the time, John B. Roberts, General Manager of The Old Country, stated, “There has never been anything like it. For …

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[Adam the single rider]

From the park itself-
"The construction took months, as engineers welded sections of track together, totaling 3,240 feet. As the team worked their way around the track, following the direction of travel, they noticed a big problem. The last section of track, leading from the second loop to the station, was curved the wrong way (toward what is today, Alpengeist). Engineers had to heat up the track and bend it back in the right direction. If you ride the coaster today, you may feel a very slight jolt to the right. This is where the track was corrected. "

The Loch Ness Monster Finally Sighted

That was the headline back in 1978 when The Loch Ness Monster first opened. At the time, John B. Roberts, General Manager of The Old Country, stated, “There has never been anything like it. For …

buschgardensva.wordpress.com

Very cool thanks sir.

 

[Adam the single rider]

Very cool thanks sir.

Great link

Very cool thanks sir.

Amazing link as well

 

[Adam the single rider]

Great link

Amazing link as well

Oops double reply

 

[halfabee]

I love that passage for the simple reason that it cites a "slight jolt to the right" on Nessie.

As smooth as the ride is, relative to other Arrows of that era -- if I could legitimately differentiate a particular "slight jolt" on Nessie from other jolts of various degrees during the last (or any) stretch of the ride, I would consider myself quite the accomplished jolt-connoisseur.

That section has always felt more or less exactly as jolt-y as any other climbing turn on any older-era Arrow coaster.

Not to question any of the article's facts at all. Great write-up. I just get a little chuckle from the idea. Maybe I'm the only one.

 

[GrandpaD]

From the 1977 park brochure -

 

[vacoasterfanatic]

I just got off lnm from my 300th ride on it!!

 

[sereniv]

just out of curiosity, how have you managed to keep track of all of those rides!?

 

[vacoasterfanatic]

A piece of paper

 

[horsesboy]

just out of curiosity, how have you managed to keep track of all of those rides!?

Just like everything in life now a days there is an app for that. Check for Coaster Counter in your app store of choice and you should be able to find it.

 

[Shane]

Unfortunately Coaster-Count is only available on iOS. Which brings up the question, why don't we already have a Coaster-Count thread? Let's fix that...

 

[horsesboy]

Unfortunately Coaster-Count is only available on iOS. Which brings up the question, why don't we already have a Coaster-Count thread? Let's fix that...

Correct but there is an android app that can be used. The one I use is auto ride count. Found it by searching coaster count years ago.

 

[Ghost of Pretzel Kaiser]

Uhh, I think Nessie might be on the chopping block.

 

[vacoasterfanatic]

Really? Just because of deer? Apollo's has tons of deer around it and It runs.

 

[Nicole]

It is a long-time joke of @Pretzel Kaiser's. Look at his posts on robot deer.

 

[Jonesta6]

Uhh, I think Nessie might be on the chopping block.

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Maybe they're for EfP instead, I think they share that access road?

 

[UncleDuncan]

Standard Series 2 Surveillance Deer. I wouldn't be too concerned.

 

[Jahrules]

Standard Series 2 Surveillance Deer. I wouldn't be too concerned.

Gotta watch for the ones with antlers. Those are really antennae to report back to central command.

 

[belsaas]

The lockers near LNM should be called Lochers.

That's all.

 

[GrandpaD]

I'm sure this picture of them building the original trains was posted somewhere.

But I'd totally forgot about this little "factoid" from an old BGW Corp. blog. (I rode it the first day...I wish the RideOp would have goofed up...)

"One of the most interesting history points of The Loch Ness Monster was that the operators used to manually stop the train in the station. If for some reason an employee did not stop the train in time, the train would have to go all the way around again. That gave some lucky guests two rides in a row on the famous Nessie.