Blown fuse strands riders dangling upside down on Ark. park roller coaster

"Coasten1" wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but if this is a coaster, why would it get stuck
> upside down in a power outage? Wouldn't it just stop at the next
breakrun?

Just before this coaster disengages the lift chain, the train is in a fully
inverted position. My guess is the train was still on the lift chain when
the power went out, which would not allow said train to move either forward
nor backward.

On Jun 10, 11:05 pm, "Bill Buckley"
<w.buckl...@verizon.forgetaboutit.com> wrote:
> "Coasten1" wrote:
> > Forgive my ignorance, but if this is a coaster, why would it get stuck
> > upside down in a power outage? Wouldn't it just stop at the next
>
> breakrun?
>
> Just before this coaster disengages the lift chain, the train is in a fully
> inverted position. My guess is the train was still on the lift chain when
> the power went out, which would not allow said train to move either forward
> nor backward.

Talk about Murphies law.

I had never even heard of that coaster until now. They'll definitely
need to have a backup generator now.

On Jun 10, 8:05 pm, "Bill Buckley"
<w.buckl...@verizon.forgetaboutit.com> wrote:

> Just before this coaster disengages the lift chain, the train is in a fully
> inverted position. My guess is the train was still on the lift chain when
> the power went out, which would not allow said train to move either forward
> nor backward.

The first time Bassistist and I rode this we were stuck about 20 feet
lower on the vertical portion of the lift for about 15-20 mins.
Finally a maintenance man showed up and were slowly lowered back to
the station. It happened again to another group of riders about 30
mins later and the ride was closed for a few hours that day.

Great ride tho...tons of fun and lots of airtime!