This week I opened yet another major page,The Comet, Anatomy of a Coaster. This page and others in the works explore the intimate details of what made up the Comet, with lots of pictures and explanatory description. As we all know nothing is ever really finished, and this section is not exception, yet is fairly complete. We will be doing some additional anatomy pages detailing the mechanics (brakes, station, track wwitching and other things) in the near future.

I changed the wrecking ball countdown timer and pushed it out another month, as there appears to be little in terms of actual construction happening on the site. We’ve attempted to contact the developers for a more concrete (no pun intended) date on construction start, and the Open House they are planning. So far no word, but as you guessed, it will be announced here as soon as we know.

The picture collection continues to grow, and we have litterally hundreds of ‘current’ photos to go through. The important highlights have already been added to the galleries, and sorted in with their existing counterparts where appropriate. Most are in the Overgrown and forgotten gallery, and some are in the Chronological Diary, The Comets Last Days section (most are in the overgrown section though)

-Pete

In case you were not aware the roof to the Comets station collapsed onto the platform, I wrote up an article, and posted a picture of its current condition (in the news section)

So what’s new:
A section called ‘About the Designer” which is an attempt to collect information about Vernon Keenan and fill in some of the blanks about this amazing coaster designer.

Another section with some pictures of the comet in it’s glory. This section is not finished, and there are several more pictures to come. But we have made special arrangements with the photographer, to use these amazing pictures (so don’t mind the shameless plugs for you to get your own). There is only one up at the moment, personally I call it “First Drop”.

Whats to come:
Just about any section on the site can be updated, as information becomes available. I believe the new Vernon Keenan article could stand a little more info, but that is all I was currently able to find, so stay tuned. There will be more photos from coasterpix, in the hayday sections. Finally I’m currently working on a ‘Technical Details” section for the comet, where I will be exploring all the physical aspects of how the coaster was constructed.

Thats it for the moment, so stay tuned, keep visiting, and explore what we’ve put together