Roller Coaster

Today was day one of our roller coaster company. For years now I've wanted to get a spring carnival project for the School of Drama. There's this "Midway Entry Icon" that I've always thought would be a good project for us. This year, a drama student was fairly high up in the carnival organization and got the icon as her own project. Before the early demise of my technical design class I glommed my people onto it. So, now we're trying to do it without the force of a class behind it.

Here's day one...

We laid out the "spine" and spaced out the track supports...

Fabricated match plates to make the ship breaks...

Assembled the parts we had to get a rough idea of the shape we wound up with. It turns out that a combination of some design errors and some fabrication errors by a sub gave us a profile that's a little more pointy than we want. But it still has the potential of looking cool if we do the tracks right.

We started to lay in the track pieces. That will be most of tomorrow. So far its pretty cool, but the SNAFUs are adding up. Keep your fingers crossed.