The Ride
Immediately following the station, the train makes a small drop out of the station, giving it just enough momentum to make it to the lift hill. Once the train engages the lift hill, it is carried up to a height of 60 feet (18 m). At the top of the lift, the train enters a downwards double helix. Once the train leaves the double helix, riders are pulled through a bunny hop. Upon exiting the bunny hop, riders are pulled up a small slope, and then are pulled to the right into the mid course brake run to slow down the train. After being slowed down, riders are pulled down a banked curve into a ground helix. Riders are then pulled up another banked curve onto a flat section of track. This flat section was once a bunny hop, but it was re-profiled to the flat section that we see today shortly after the ride's construction was completed. The train then drops abruptly over the lake. Riders then are pulled over a bunny hop, dropping back to lake level. The train then makes a banked turn over the lake, and then pulls up a banked curve into the final brake run.
For the 2006 season, Runaway Mine Train's track was repainted with brighter colors and the trains were fitted with new individual lap-bar restraints. However, problems with these restraints caused several lengthy periods of downtime throughout the season due to malfunctions in the trains' locking systems.
Read more about this topic: Runaway Mine Train (Six Flags Great Adventure)
Famous quotes containing the word ride:
“We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoll’n that met him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)