4-08-09

Today is Wednesday April 8th 2009. The day was dedicated to working on our amusement park rides. My ride is going to be pretty sweat. Of course its going to be a train ride, easy enough. The ride will consist of a steam locomotive pulling a cut of cars. The ride will circle the park. The drive wheels of the locomotive will be the rotational aspect of the project. The diameter of the wheels will be 56 inches, with 50 inch centers. The train will climb and elevation of 2 feet during the ride. The locomotive and train will gain potential energy as if nears the top of the hill. The engineer will then have to ride the air brakes as he brings his train safety down the hill. Turning the potential energy into kinetic energy. We are going to have a mock train robbery. The punks are going to have guns that will fire fake bullets at the passengers riding in the cars. The bullets firing out of the gun will act as our projectile motion.

The ride promise to be a crowd pleaser. This wont be some rinky dink little 15 in gauge steam locomotive the park is bring in a full size 1:1 scale standard gauge steam locomotive, two of them. They will both be ex Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives. The total train weight will be around 400 tons with out factoring in the locomotive. The total with the locomotive will raise the weight to 650 tons. The engine crew will be full certified by the FRA. All boilers will also fall under the FRA supervision. This is done out of safety of the passengers and other park visitors. Since our locomotives will be ex Pennsylvania Railroad, out of respect for the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad. The name of this little railroad will be something along the lines of the little Pennsy.