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[shavethewhales]

^Very cool, nice find. Looks fairly recent, because they've done more work on the station than I had seen before.

More interestingly, there's a huge number of footers going in behind hobo junction. It looks like the bulk of the footers placed right now are in that valley rather than the valley between the mule barn and maintenance area that I was speculating about earlier. Perhaps the first drop will be behind hobo junction, and then it comes out of the valley and crosses the train tracks a couple of times to go into the other valley without disturbing the mule barn. It looks like it might actually go farther out away from the park, hard to tell yet.

Here's more fanboy paint art just for kicks:

Terrain of the area in question (hobo junction is the little clearing next to the train tracks on the far left): http://imgur.com/fWchh.jpg

Known work areas: http://i.imgur.com/vtUOm.jpg

[sanddunerider]

OK try this.. not sure how else to do it???.  here are 4 links to 4 pics I put on FB from my phone!!  LOL!! good luck..
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3284217995804&set=a.2222120204023.122872.1578260143&type=1&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3284220635870&set=a.2222120204023.122872.1578260143&type=1&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3284222635920&set=a.2222120204023.122872.1578260143&type=1&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3284224155958&set=a.2222120204023.122872.1578260143&type=1&theater

[shavethewhales]

If you're going to post links to facebook, make sure your content is marked public. I believe most people have it setup to where everything is automatically private, as yours is currently.

[sanddunerider]

Shave, try this video link...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3284311158133

[sanddunerider]

Ok i set it for public, check it out...

[sanddunerider]

ANother video... hope u can see it..

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3284311158133#!/

[Swoosh]

 Try putting [im g] [/im g] (omit the space) around the url for the photos since your links still are not working

[shavethewhales]

The photos work now, I edited the links a bit so our forum didn't mess them up - sometimes facebook links can be tricky like that. The videos are still set to private.

^IMG tags won't work for facebook photos unless you know how to parse out the direct url to the image files.

Interesting the difference in distance from the train tracks from that angle. From other angles it looks like it's right on the tracks, but it's good to know there's a bit of space.

[Swoosh]

Still don't work.
This is why they invented photobucket and flickr

[BackInTime]

This could be one of the video's sanddunerider was trying to post yesterday.

http://youtu.be/JdoDg8V05eE

[sanddunerider]

Thanks Back, that is one of the videos..

[sawblade5]

Here are some of my Photos I took Sunday including a close up of a Footer in place. The prefab footers they are using doesn't look like traditional wooden coaster footers as a traditional wooden footer would have flat metal sticking up out of the cement. These look more like sign footers with the round metal base sticking out of the footer. It is making me wonder if they're gonna be using a wooden structure for this or a metal structure for this one as the footers seem to suggest.

The thing that has me really excited for the ride now is that drop into the Valley. I am digging up some Topo Maps in the area to tell what the terrain is like around this coaster and to estimate the height of the valley drop there.

Anyone got any ideas about the structure being wooden or metal. I had thought it was gonna be Wooden Structured but the footers are throwing me off.

[BackInTime]

No problem, SDR. Happy to share your other video(s), but I don't see another one listed on your youtube page. Thanks for sharing the pics above. This project looks like it could be more expansive than I was orginally thinking it would be. And I agree with you on the footers. If you check out RMC's website there are several pics of their previous projects that utilize metal supports rather than wood. Personally, I don't think the plethora of metal supports it will take for a bigger coaster, will complement the atmosphere and surroundings at SDC. The whole park just begs for a coaster that's timber from head to toe, but it may just not be nearly cost effective at this point. We will see. So anxious to see vertical progress. Can't be too far off. Unless they're just getting started with the footers. 

[chittlins]

If this isn't a wood coaster I'm going to be mighty disappointed.

[tiffanylynnt]

Here are some pictures I took last Thursday.