Roller coaster brakes NEVER fail

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Roller coasters are fast, and with that much speed, something substantial must be in place at the end of the ride to slow you down - right? Fortunately for you, modern roller coasters feature failsafe brakes - essentially, they’ll always be there to slow you down. But how? What’s so special about roller coaster brakes and why do they never fail?
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00:00 Introduction
00:54 Brakes? What brakes?
02:15 Skid brakes
03:57 Friction brakes
06:43 Magnetic brakes
10:31 Additional brakes
11:57 Block brakes
12:45 Conclusion
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@coasterbot Год назад

If you enjoyed this video it would mean a lot to subscribe to my channel! We're slowly making our way to 100k 😍

@melvinschrab505 Год назад

You really deserve it, man!

@Beanie1984 Год назад

Fancy doing a video about roller coaster safety during power cuts?

@pumkinmr8368 Год назад

Already have subcribed

@coasterbot Год назад

@@Beanie1984great suggestion, I'll make a note of it for future consideration!

@chichizekitty5694 Год назад

This was a geniunely interesting video, thank you for teaching me about brakes on roller coasters :) I love these kinds of videos

@jerrylai96 Год назад

Tell that to the 23 guests that died on Roller Coaster 1 in my Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 save file

@Hoshimaru57 Год назад

Yeah, Rollercoaster Tycoon treats all brakes like skid brakes and when they fail it’s the equivalent of someone forgetting to raise them or them being worn out.

@stalincat2457 Год назад

Only 23 deaths? That's one hell of a safe park!

@thewafflehouse841 Год назад

23 deaths in the words of Greystillplays " *those are rookie numbers* "

@Noicer_wastaken Год назад

Let's game it out: "Looks like they forgot my existence."

@tiredcoder Год назад

Lol

@Iwaslemon87 Год назад

As informative as this video is. It will never eradicate the fear of seeing a station break failure in the original rollercoaster tycoon

@Iknowtoomuchable Год назад

If the coaster has multiple trains, it means there's about to be a crash. If there's only one train, it means those guests are getting a free ride. Either way, it's terrifying.

@alaeriia01 Год назад

Only if you didn't have trim brakes. Station brakes failures would cascade to any brakes immediately before the station, but if there is a gap of at least one tile, the before-station brakes will still work.

@CarlosAM1 Год назад

bro got traumatized by rollercoaster tycoon 💀

@alaeriia01 Год назад

@@CarlosAM1 Failing a difficult scenario because the RNG decides to fuck you over is definitely fear-inducing.

@RadioactiveSherbet Год назад

Which is why I *always* use block brakes. Period. This fear of brake failure even permeates into playing Planet Coaster. If it has multiple trains (sometimes even if not,) that coaster gets block brakes! *cue Oprah Winfrey meme*

@robcoasters Год назад

I noticed the smooth transition of the black bars at 5:13 to accommodate for the smaller aspect ratio of the upcoming older clip, and I can just say this is such a nice quality of viewing feature that I really appreciated. Great video by the way

@TheRadioAteMyTV Год назад

Ain't he a wizard with editing!

@coasterbot Год назад

I'm glad you noticed, I've always been annoyed at these kinds of transitions in the past and wanted to make them smoother. Thanks for the kind words :)

@delorean_5982 Год назад

@@coasterbot that editing almost made me cry with joy,, thank you coaster bot

@tannertasman Год назад

@@coasterbot the colour/b&w transitions happen so fast it's nearly subconscious, but they're super effective at blending between what would otherwise be jarring clips. very nice

@erikhjortsater5461 Год назад

It’s literally one key frame required but it’s tastefully done

@brodybishop7647 Год назад

The water brake used by Sheikra is actually pretty problematic all things considered. A year ago I got to travel down to Tampa to replace the two sections of track directly after the water brake due to corrosion.

@Aaron-cs3xl Год назад

I'm guessing you're a roller coaster mechanic? That sounds like an exciting job as far as being a mechanic is concerned.

@coasterbot Год назад

Interesting to hear!

@Razticz Год назад

@@Aaron-cs3xl nah he was just bored and owns a welder

@CarlRencer 11 месяцев назад

why do you think that is problematic? The engineers know it will corrode. Replacing those sections is maintenance, not an unexpected repair.

@dibble1331 9 месяцев назад

@@CarlRencer probably because due to corrosion it has to be replaced fairly often compared to the rest of the ride. especially considering sheikra is a steel coaster which can normally go around 30 years without their track having to be replaced.

@CZsWorld Год назад

"We've already made a whole video about block sections" Ok but ElToroRyan made a whole CHANNEL about them.

@coasterbot Год назад

True, I'm not as dedicated to the block section god as Mr ElToroRyan!

@Cover01 Год назад

@@coasterbot I was gonna comment, you should have had Ryan speak in when u talked about block sections haha

@overcast1725 Год назад

What are the FUCKING odds I run into the one and only CZsWorld!!! Bruh I love ur saw breakdowns and other shit lol.

@wade7488 Год назад

yeah but what if they are sleepy or the sun makes it difficult to see when the train is coming? checkmate

@a_cowwithlegs Год назад

brakes deserve better work conditions

@HaroldKuilman Год назад

@@a_cowwithlegs they deserve a break 👌🏻

@GreenIcing1 Год назад

@@HaroldKuilman they get it half the year

@HaroldKuilman Год назад

@@GreenIcing1 depends on the park, some European parks are open all year 😉

@DevioussGD Год назад

@@HaroldKuilman please tell me which parks in europe are open all year because I wanted to go to one but all parks are closed or way too far away

@yutahkotomi1195 Год назад

I'm not _really_ interested in rollercoasters, but I have to thank you very much for using km/h alongside mi/h. It's great not having to apply x1.6 every time speed comes up. :D

@coasterbot Год назад

No worries! People from a range of countries watch my videos so I thought it'd be nice to make them friendly for everyone :)

@rmac3217 Год назад

Or you could go back like Billy Madison and actually complete you required elementary school education, either/or. 3mph is average walking speed, similar to 12inches can be divided easily in many ways. That's why it's called scientific metrics... mm, cm and 0s are only useful in a lab setting, why don't we just change minutes to 100 per hour? Because that's stupidity...

@lcorsaletti Год назад

@@rmac3217 This is called the INTERNATIONAL system of units. Because every country had their own unit system we all got together and defined an common unit system. Miles, inches and yards were not even taught on the majority of schools around the world... I mean, why they would? They're used on what, 2 or 3 countries only? Everybody else uses the standard.

@polygontower Год назад

@@rmac3217 Never learn Imperial! Metric > Imperial Appendix: There are only 3 countries which use imperial because metric is superior in terms of conversion. It is just easier. There is no reason to use imperial. Appendix: Which do you prefer? 100 billion or 10000000000 tens? Which do you prefer? 0.5*7*4 C or 14 C?

@polygontower Год назад

@@rmac3217 How is metric only useful in a lab setting? Most of the world only uses metric. Instead of your 12s, use 10s; we're already using base 10; 1,2,3,4,5 etc. Look how easy it is. 100cm -----> 1m . I would say imperial just sucks. In fact, it isn't even useful; not useful in a lab setting, not in a casual setting and certainly not for anyone at anytime.

@TimothyChapman Год назад

One thing that this video didn't mention is the fact that permanent magnets lose strength over time. So you still need to either (a) replace the magnets on the train or (b) re-strengthen the magnets on the train periodically.

@coasterbot Год назад

That's a great point! I'm a and b would be covered during maintenance of roller coaster trains :)

@zerokun2655 Год назад

Oh yeah i didn't think about it, still better than electromagnets that would stop working without power

@iankrasnow5383 Год назад

That's the first thing I thought. Also, when eddy currents slow a train down, it produces a lot of heat. The magnets probably need very good heat sinks. Magnets are less effective at high temperatures, and if it hits the Curie temperature, about 700C, even for a second, it destroys the magnet completely.

@GummieI Год назад

still pretty sure that happens a LOT slower than the wear of the friction brakes (and by having said magnetics in right before the friction brakes to do the final stopping, it further reduces the wear on the friction brake, since the train is moving very slowly already into them)

@reaganharder1480 Год назад

@@iankrasnow5383 looking at those coaster cars, it doesn't look like a whole lot of effort has been put into heatsinks, but realistically I don't think it's necessary. The brakes only really get used for a small percentage of the ride time, the fins and magnets have a fairly large surface area to disperse heat from, and they should have quite a lot of thermal mass to dump heat into if the air cooling isn't fast enough.

@WhiteSuburbanite Год назад

12:00 For those of you who are unfamiliar, a block zone is a section of ride that only one train may occupy. At the end of a block zone is a method to stop the train in case the block zone ahead is still occupied.

@CoolioJoe100 Год назад

This is the safety system that prevents roller coaster trains from colliding with one another.

@JoeJohnson-mk4qd Год назад

hahahahaha

@kkatellyn Год назад

Ryan is that you?!?!!

@yippymishy Год назад

ElToroRyan has been spotted

@cinnamonsugar2011 Год назад

OK THAT IS ENOUGH wanna be problematic roller coaster

@TheRadioAteMyTV Год назад

8:38 the unforgivable pun.

@bass-tones Год назад

I drove buses briefly in college and found the concept of failsafe brakes really fascinating there as I was learning about air brake systems. In a bus with air brakes, unlike a normal car, but similar to these coaster brakes, pressure is required to keep the brakes _disengaged_. If the air brake system somehow fails and pressure is lost, the brakes become fully engaged and the bus comes to a stop. Pretty clever stuff.

@tbird81 21 день назад

Why are runaway trucks a thing then?

@-Burb 15 дней назад

@@tbird81Brakes overheating and becoming ineffective is the most common cause in mountains

@pqfamilyadventures Год назад

The fins at the top of Velocicoaster I believe were actually added to keep the train moving and prevent it from getting stuck up there. On a very rare event it actually got stuck at the top, which led to a very tricky evacuation. Learned during the paddock tour.

@coasterbot Год назад

That's very true!

@TheCarpenterUnion Год назад

Couldn't the passengers just simultaneously shift their body weight back and forth? Surely there's not that much friction

@justwhatido6058 Год назад

i always thought they were more LSM launches just in case the train was going too slow

@Thestuffnope Год назад

@TheCarpenterUnion i dont think the restraints give you enough freedom of movement to do that.

@pqfamilyadventures Год назад

@@Thestuffnope Also those trains are very heavy.

@andrewgiordano1817 Год назад

blud just jinxed it

@bearrett50kal17 Год назад

While they may never fail because of failsafes, when I was a kid my family were the last call for the Mean Streak at Cedar Point, and due to shutdown procedures, they disengaged all but the last set of brakes. They had a strict lowered age limit and warned us this last ride is gonna be fast and painful. They weren't lying, I grew up doing annual trips to Cedar Point and that was the fastest the Mean Streak ever was, the final steep banked sharp turn that ended the track was brutal. Everyone had headaches afterward from our heads bouncing off the sides of the head supports in the fast turns. It hurt that day and everyone regretted it in the moments after but I'm glad I got to ride the "brakeless" Mean Streak before it got torn down.

@Jsach3 Год назад

Some skid brakes are still manually controlled! Twister and Phoenix at Knoebels for example are completely manually controlled. If a ride operator wanted, they could simply slide the train right through the station allowing riders to go on a second lap. Maintenance and the supervisors generally frown upon that though. I've been lucky enough that once or twice on the last ride of the night towards the end of the season the Twister ops will stop it in the station before parking it all the way, quickly ask if anyone wants to get off, and then slide it the rest of the way through the station for a round two! Seeing the clips from Twister in this video made me smile, not just because of how great the ride is, but because of how great the ops are too!

@coasterbot Год назад

That's interesting to hear! Some rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach are still manually operated too. Thanks for sharing this really interesting information :)

@Captainnoodle1 Год назад

I remember one night probably about 10 years ago being sent through at least 3 times in a row on the Phoenix that is one of my favorite memories at Knoebels

@danielcz6882 17 дней назад

Skid brake it's the worst name ever

@billclinton984 Год назад

Imma show this to my friend who’s deathly afraid of rollercoasters because she thinks the brakes won’t work and we will fly off the track

@coasterbot Год назад

Hopefully it helps!

@billclinton984 Год назад

@@coasterbot i hope so too im taking her to thorpe park this year

@KingdaToro Год назад

Brakes are what keep you from crashing into another train, which is actually one of the two most common kinds of coaster accidents (the other is someone being struck by a train). Guide and upstop wheels are what keep you from flying off the track, brakes really have nothing to do with that.

@billclinton984 Год назад

@@KingdaToro I know but when I explain that to her she just doesn’t want to know

@speedylloyd Год назад

Thank you for bringing up the fact that fins can only be installed on straight track. There are way too many people that feel Dragster is going to get boosters on the vertical twist, not understanding it's not possible.

@coasternerd6883 Год назад

Well they can also be installed on slopes too, as you can see with Kingda Ka. But that just depends on the ride tbh.

@K-o-R Год назад

In RCT a water splash just before the station on a wooden coaster is a great way to prevent Station Brakes Failure from causing an accident.

@dasy2k1 Месяц назад

I normally have a couple of independent brake runs before the station plus a final block brake just before the station to improve ride throughput

@matthewkolar7560 Год назад

Well, the entire concept of "fail-safe" means that the real reality is that the brakes ALWAYS fail, but their failure state is that they stop the train, and do not let it go.

@thewhitefalcon8539 15 дней назад

We should be calling them goers. If the goer doesn't work, it doesn't go.

@purplepenguin43 9 дней назад

If roller coasters are fail safe, then aircraft are fail-danger

@juusovalkonen5876 Год назад

knowing about the copper tube magnet trick I got excited at 00:50 bc I figured immediately modern rollercoasters use magnets to slow them down :) was not disappointed when I got to 6:43!

@coasterbot Год назад

Hell yeah!

@madbirds Год назад

Got to see the braking by default in action when I worked at expedition everest at disney. Our brakes zone 3 would open half second or less before the train came through and close just barley after it went passed. Was crazy how close it was.

@coasterbot Год назад

That's pretty awesome!

@TemporalWolf Год назад

That's good to hear. I would assume they are designed such that even if two trains are touching entering the brake zone the 2nd train will stop.

@madbirds Год назад

@@TemporalWolf yep little late but now seeing this. Brake zone 3 isn't used to much only when we fall behind unload or loading. Brake zone 3 was brakes u didn't want to get stuck at it brakes hard.

@TemporalWolf Год назад

@@madbirds I'd assume it's the same situation as airbags: It's not pleasant to get hit with an airbag, but it's miles better than the alternative.

@BoyRoy18 Год назад

I know that vekoma had stange friction brakes. They use air to close, and springs to open. They all have a sepred buffer tank that can stop a train 1 time if the air suppley is lost. Its stanges but still used on the older vekoma's. Python at Efteling uses brakes like this.

@Robbedem Год назад

Aren't those brakes replaced with newer versions with the revision of Python?

@BoyRoy18 Год назад

@@Robbedem no.

@staceywarner4910 10 месяцев назад

It was interesting to rewatch this video as yesterday we were at Alton Towers when the storm caused a park wide power outage. Super surreal watching Wickerman just turn off. Anyway, as the resident enthusiast among friends folks were asking me how it worked with rides being held with the power off. I couldn’t remember in detail but said that basically if the ride either knows there is an obstacle ahead or cannot say either way it will hold the train by default (which i think was essentially correct). Was very cool to see it happen in real time.

@coasterbot 10 месяцев назад

It sounds like you put their minds at ease!

@beautiful-crouton Год назад

great video! always love your high-quality and informative content. i noticed the neat transition in and out of the old black-and-white coaster footage, thought that was really smooth. the infomercial bit was also great ;) keep up the awesome work

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks for the kind words, and for noticing the transition! :)

@bengoodwin465 Год назад

2:39 Twister!! One of my favorite coasters. Surprised to see it anywhere online considering its location, but I suppose Knobel's is fairly well known to anyone actually into wooden coasters. And Phoenix at 3:02. I know it's won so many top prizes for wooden coasters but no one I talk to knows what I'm talking about. Super cool to see these amazing coasters get recognition even though they're buried up in Amish country.

@coasterbot Год назад

Both of those wooden coasters look great! As you said, there's a lot of history surrounding them

@internetname6210 Год назад

Phoenix was the first roller coaster I ever rode, and to this day I still haven’t rode anything like it, it gives you that fluttering stomach feeling on blast the whole time as you go up and down like you’re really flying somehow

@KingdaToro Год назад

Knoebels is legendary, don't sell it short.

@marcusfelten8823 Год назад

I wish I could've been a brakeman when I was a ride operator at worlds of fun. Test rides were the highlight of any shift of course (as well as running the panel aka sitting down most often in ac) I suppose I was a brakeman when making the ferris wheel but that was not fun as I wasn't on it and it took a lot of concentration and finesse!

@ninjanerdstudent6937 11 месяцев назад

Can you imagine getting a job as a brakeman?

@snaplash Год назад

The block section item might make my concept possible" Have two coasters simultaneously dive into a tunnel section from opposite directions, looking like they'll crash at the bottom. Instead, they swerve away from each other inside the tunnel and emerge at points not visible from the approach points. Of course, it will only fool the riders once.

@valkyrie_pilot 14 дней назад

This would be pretty trivially doable simply by using unconnected track segments, and potentially even having two synchronized load stations, similarly to Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom. It would probably be *expensive*, though, as it would basically require the construction of two separate rides.

@thebobkap Год назад

On rollercoasters a block zone is a section of ride that only one train may occupy at a time. At the end of a block zone there is a method to stop the train, in case the block zone ahead is still occupied. This is the safety system that prevents rollercoaster trains from colliding with one another.

@Frommerman Год назад

Hmm. I'm still not sure what block zones do. Could you explain?

@amazingperson9604 Год назад

I've never ever even thought about them just not working, like even on the first time I went on a rollercoaster myself, I was scared because I didn't know how it felt like, I really didn't think about anything that keeps it together breaking.

@hyperconjugation Год назад

I never knew I wanted to know about roller coaster breaks for 12 mins straight. But i am happy

@coasterbot Год назад

Ah yes, one satisfied customer

@pumkinmr8368 Год назад

I've been interested in coasters after my first one last summer and I'm going to get on more later I just wanna say you're videos helped me get into coasters and keep up there's amazing vids

@coasterbot Год назад

That's awesome to hear, I hope you get to ride more this year too! Have fun ☺️

@SupermarketSweep777 Год назад

Video: Roller coaster brakes NEVER fail RollerCoaster Tycoon: *Train blows up.*

@rogorix4991 Год назад

The braking by the magnetic fiel is very good and some new lorries have them as standard braking they are good if you're going 30mph> (because stopping 40tons with disk brakes is harsh (they dont last long) ) but for braking at slow speed they don't work. Also the magnets cant always by active because the lorries couldnt move so lorries can still have braking fails.

@Helawutz Год назад

Excellent Video! Great work! Eventhough i knew most things already, i really enjoyed watching it.

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks for the kind comment ☺️

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 12 дней назад

Brakes may not fail, but seatbelts sure do 😊 It's pretty crazy how much trust is leveraged on many of the older rides still in operation.

@vzs01 Год назад

12:04 for those of you who are unaware

@T_Zilla Год назад

Iykyk

@froggary Год назад

Really interesting and informative video. I also really like the range of little rollercoaster clips you use - e.g. from Speed to Kingda Ka.

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks for the kind words!

@BobOrKlaus Год назад

man, its nice to know the answer to the title of a video and STILL get educated on the topic, great job

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks for this very kind comment ☺️

@willhamlink Год назад

I got ElToroRyan flashbacks hearing an explanation of block zones lmao

@RecklessFables Год назад

@jackfeldman3916 Год назад

Velocicoaster actually doesn’t have a trim, that is I believe a couple LSM fins, and they are used to aid the train out of a stall at the apex of the top hat.

@coasterbot Год назад

You're 100% right!

@Dan-uy2ld Год назад

Would LSM fins not have a breaking effect anyway when they are turned off?

@jackfeldman3916 Год назад

@@Dan-uy2ld they could if universal chose to use them like such

@Dan-uy2ld Год назад

@@jackfeldman3916 Do you know how they would do this? Just not run any current through the fins? I'm not really sure how LSMs work but they fascinate me 😂

@jackfeldman3916 Год назад

@@Dan-uy2ld LSMs are completely inactive, no current, powered off

@bmorr Год назад

The amount of coasters from KI that this features makes my heart happy. I used to scrounge for any video of KI when I was little, and now it's commonplace. Also shoutout Busch Gardens Tampa cus it's one of the other parks I've been to, and I recognized a lot of coasters from there in the video as well.

@coasterbot Год назад

Kings Island look like a great amusement park! I recently went to Busch Gardens Tampa, it's a lot of fun :)

@timothylego5675 10 месяцев назад

Back in like 1990, there was a brake failure in thunderbolt at kennywood where 2 trains collided with each other

@camikelly2356 Год назад

Very informative, Harry. Hopefully this will help ease people’s fears of roller coasters.

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks Cami!

@thepenguin4043 Год назад

Him: starting to talk about blocks Me: having flashbacks to ElToroRyan

@billkeithchannel Год назад

Superman Ride Of Steel at Darien Lake was my first coaster experience with side fin magnetic braking. So smooth!

@wompastompa3692 8 дней назад

Used to go to Lakeside Amusement Park in northern Colorado with some extended family every summer. It's an older park with a wooden coaster called the Cyclone. One year it rained part way in the day and they had to close the Cyclone because it was going fast enough that they were having trouble stopping just the empty trains during testing and they were concerned about a potential derail on a few of the turns.

@coastarider 3 месяца назад

Bullet coaster has left the chat

@Palmboom313 Год назад

Ive you play RollerCoaster tycoon, they will break.

@coasterbot Год назад

You got me there!

@themepark_united Год назад

Amazing video as per usual!

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks that means a lot ☺️

@rhettorical Год назад

Semi trucks use a similar failsafe, where the brakes default to engaged. It's so simple and elegant when you think about it, but never even occurs to most people since we're so used to brakes in our cars only engaging when you choose to engage them.

@tbird81 21 день назад

That's why trucks never crash?

@JohnRunyon Год назад

They never fail for the same reason the brakes in your car never fail: maintenance. (And also because they required energy applied to them to *disengage* rather than engage)

@coasterbot Год назад

Exactly!

@fury.thoosie Год назад

i dont get people that think coasters are unsafe.

@thecompanioncube4211 День назад

Well it feels more unsafe than walking on the sidewalk. It's just a mental thing

@leeowen4989 Год назад

The old L4 type friction brake introduced by Arrow, inherited by Vekoma and copied by various chinese companies doesn't meet the definition of fail-safe. If there is a loss of air pressure after the control valve, the brake will open. The retractable fins used by Intamin use air to move in both directions but there is also a spring inside the cylinder that will push the fin up if there is no air holding it down.

@KingYakko01 Год назад

Man seeing the wooden coasters from Hersheypark and Knoebels just really made me smile

@FlashFoxBox Год назад

The only fail remains is the human error

@TheRadioAteMyTV Год назад

Humans, why did there have to be so many humans?

@RemixedVoice Год назад

Correct. Which is why I still get nervous every time I get on a coaster lol. Humans fail

@eyebrowse Год назад

roller coasters are designed around human error. it's extremely difficult to circumvent the numerous redundant systems in place.

@TheRadioAteMyTV Год назад

@@eyebrowse Yet, every year there are dozens of circumvention where coaster and theme park accidents occurs. Something as simple as letting a giant 15 year old sit in a chair that will thrust him 100s of feet in the air and let him fall to his death, as one easy example, where numerous redundant systems failed and he died a horrific death. Plenty of other examples where that came from too. Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.

@OofThatsNice Год назад

Superman The Ride @ SF New England has the most exciting brake run I've ever experienced. Slams to a stop from ~40 or ~50 mph about 10 yards from the train in the station. So awesome

@coasterbot Год назад

Sounds like a lot of force! Ha ha 😅

@logandihel Год назад

2:40 Twister at Knoebels in Elysburg, PA

@thomasroulston8972 10 месяцев назад

I’m so glad I saw at least one ride from Canadas wonderland, I love that place

@ogeboi4945 11 месяцев назад

10:42 I like how you call out B&M like that lol

@LMinett Год назад

Great video; very informative

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks!

@RollerbazAndCoasterDad Год назад

Top quality as always!

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks guys!

@itsgamingtime9578 Год назад

i had a sort of break fail while i was on a roler coaster. it was slowed down but not enought, we just drove throught the start (maybe 15kmh/9.3mph) and had a second round without waiting. glad that it was a soft one.

@coasterbot Год назад

Some smaller roller coasters do go through the station quickly to begin a second lap! Quite a few powered ones do that, for example

@XAMEREN Год назад

what a good video. Continue making these

@coasterbot Год назад

Thank you, I shall!

@matthewczelusniak1885 Год назад

Great video! My home park was SFNE when I was growing up Superman ride of Steel a train collided with another in the station. I’m not sure if they had fail safe at that point but I know they do now. Wondering what caused the accident

@Drqgonss Год назад

Never knew i wanted to know this. But glad i saw it, great video.

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks for the kind words :)

@jappie. Год назад

i've never heard this much about brakes ever before in a video (and it surprises me two every time i watch an episode of problematic rollercoasters)

@coasterbot Год назад

Brakes are cool

@gaveintothedarkness Год назад

This was a great video!

@coasterbot Год назад

Thanks!

@draculastraphouse7863 Год назад

I remember getting on a roller coaster and we got stuck as soon as we went past the loop, we got stuck facing towards the ground and we were there for about 1 hour, I'm just glad it didn't stop at the loop and we would've been upside down

@IroAppe 18 дней назад

I already knew that, and I hoped to learn something additional that keeps the brakes failsafe. But I guess it works, since we don't hear of block brakes failing. But I can already think of many cases of failures during the video: What if the magnet brake fins don't come up, because there's a problem with the electric system, for example the specific cables that wire the motors? What if the springs fail? I already knew that springs are used to ensure a default state, it's the easiest way to do that. But it all depends on the springs not breaking. It is not an ideal failsafe system, but it seems to be the best so far, and as long as maintenance is fine, it will be fail-safe. Maybe that's the idea: If maintenance is neglected, the ride won't be safe anyway. In parks with good maintenance, the brakes are truly fail-safe, since they are always inspected and kept in their best form. In parks with neglected maintenance on the other hand, other problems come up that are severe to safety. So for all purposes, good maintenance is key to safety, and if it is neglected, it all falls apart anyway since it's a moving system that remains safe for some time, but eventually fails if it is not kept up well. So: Rollercoaster brakes are just fail-safe enough for all practical purposes, they are already more failsafe than other systems, and the whole system is only as safe as the weakest link in the chain.

@Its-Just-Zip 13 дней назад

I love the couple of coasters with hyrodynamic breaks. They look really cool and could be used to fully stop the coaster, but no-one ever does that since it would require a recovery mechanism and or the guests to swim,

@coasterbot 13 дней назад

That would be cool but yeah as you've pointed out, very impractical!

@Sci_X1 Год назад

11:11 there’s a very similar ride at Busch gardens Williamsburg called Griffon ( I honestly think they may be copies) which uses that same system Busch gardens is my favorite amusement park in a very biased opinion

@ThemeParkScienceOfficial Год назад

Love your videos! :-)

@coasterbot Год назад

I love your videos too! Thanks guys ☺️

@Margoth195 Год назад

1:26 as a Dane, I thank you for this small clip!

@coasterbot Год назад

Tivoli Gardens looks beautiful, I hope to visit someday! :)

@Margoth195 Год назад

@@coasterbot Go for it! its even just a nice place to hang out (though id guess you'd be riding the rides lol). also if you are doing site seeing check out the Vor Frelsers Kirke. in my opinion, it has the best views of the city and it usually gets less traffic than some of the other towers in the city.

@peterwille8239 8 месяцев назад

Same

@sparechainge 8 месяцев назад

People in the late 1800s would have an immediate heart attack just walking up to a modern amusement park

@JamesPero Год назад

From personal experience working ops on coasters I can say for a fact that sometimes breaks do fail. I've seen cars/trains blow right through breaking sections that were supposed to be active.

@Vertraic Год назад

I will say, Roller Coaster brakes will never fail to slow you down (as long as something does not lock them open, which is VERY unlikely to happen accidentally...) But they CAN fail ON, meaning they lock you in place where ever you are. That is how you get people stuck upside down at the top of a loop for 3+ hours in the middle of the summer until rescuers can get a ladder and harness properly set up to pull you out one by one. I have personally seen that happen twice...

@vjollila96 10 месяцев назад

1:49 vuoristorata at linanmäki, finland also uses brake men

@dai_griff_productions Год назад

Hey, Big ups on the Oakwood footage... I go there every Summer

@coasterbot Год назад

Oakwood is fun! I live in South Wales so it's not too far away

@dai_griff_productions Год назад

@@coasterbot You from S🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 as well 👌🏻 Swansea I am 👌🏻

@uncjnjngames7593 16 дней назад

Funny enough I was at Indiana beach yesterday and I think they had to close the ride for like half the day because the brakes failed. 1. I could be wrong. 2. No one went on it before they closed it, it happened before while they were testing before opening.

@LoadingScreenPro Год назад

The Superman located at Darien Lake in NY is called The Ride Of Steel now for copyright reasons, it has been called The Superman since Six Flags dropped the park over 15 years ago. (Source: I live here and used to do Ride Ops for darien lake back in 2012)

@ryanslemmer5905 7 месяцев назад

Unforutnately, the Schwarzkopf systems still face similar issues to skid brakes; Skid brakes still have issues even with cover during inclement weather. I've had instances where trains overshoot because of wet brakes (mind you this is over a decade ago at this point, and I know my personal example of the Schwarzkopf has been updated to magnetic system so I have no reference for anything on it since... but still). Water will still get carried into Skid brakes, as will water on the Schwarzkopf systems, still causing partial overshooting of the station or a brake section. While I've never seen a train manage to land back on a lift, I've seen them come close (at least to a point people had to re-ride) on both skid and side mount fin brakes. All it takes, is an efficient team of operators to get cars out in what would normally be good time where you can dispatch and let the next train nearly bypass a holding brake. All that said, a little cognizance by the crew and they can time just enough overlap to allow that holding brake to be needed, but for the computer to then cancel after slowing the incoming train a little more. So yes, while the brake systems will fail in an on position... everything else is still a factor.

@bedan5499 11 месяцев назад

What is the name of the ride from 12:11-12:15? I looked through all the videos you had in the description and didn't see it. Cheers

@BariumCobaltNitrog3n Год назад

Long haul tractor-trailer trucks have air brakes that utilize the same fail safe of using air pressure to turn the brakes off. If the air pressure goes out completely, the truck will come to a sudden stop. Same with school busses.

@karlrovey Год назад

There was abraking failure causing a collision with Silver Dollar City's "Powder Keg" when it was new.

@redmage777 Год назад

Even in the event of a total failure a single train would eventually run out of momentum and coast to a stop, probably winding down at the bottom of the first hill. I imagine there is a breaks-off test done to see what the train does when its aloud keep going until it runs out of kinetic energy. It seems the biggest threat of break failure would be two trains colliding... I'm sure even that could probably be engineered to less dangerous. Bumpers, Crumple Zones, and breaks designed to release when hit from behind.

@LillithIO Год назад

0:47 I wasn’t expecting a clip from Kings Island and immediately had a “OH MY GOD THATS THE PLACE I GO TO” moment 💀

@bluustreak6578 Год назад

8:53 that steel beam on the right of the cart looks super dangerous if you have your arm out for some reason :P

@happysword2587 Год назад

dont worry its too far away to touch it

@Himechinachae 16 дней назад

I know nothing about trains but looking at a couple of those earlier clips I guessed some sort of magnetic brake haha

@Noxuzen 11 дней назад

It was him calling it Six Flags instead of Cedar Point for me.

@MichaelBerra Год назад

12:10 - I didn't know that ElToroRyan had a british brother! LMAO

@Chicken. Год назад

10:37, best theme park ever.

@Da__goat Год назад

I wish that super fast coasters like Kingda Ka did more than just go up and back really fast. Like Stormrunner at Hershey Park does a really good job of making the ride a bit more unique from the other Intamin’s. Do something with that epic speed

@coasterbot Год назад

Stormrunner looks awesome, I definitely agree!

@DrBagPhD 4 месяца назад

It's weird knowing I've ridden both of the examples you used when showing off coasters with brake-men xD

@coasterbot 4 месяца назад

That's awesome!

@carlsmith2641 Год назад

On some older arrow coasters like corkscrew cannot run 2 trains in the rain because they slip through the fin brakes

@Gwydion_Wolf 7 месяцев назад

1 smoll thing... Even magnetic breaks require maintenance, as the magnets can fail over time :) But its nowhere near the maintenance required on skid-break systems :D

@baconmantube 7 месяцев назад

I wish you would start with the point that coaster breaks such as the original on-board brakepeople and the skid trays, as well as reverse-actuated blocks are all off-locked so that pulling the lever (etc) RELEASES the brakes, that's the safety feature that means you're always stopped!