CONSTRUCTION TOUR
Welcome to the Construction Tour for Miner's Mountain Express
The first stop is the courtyard where MME will fly by the headframe and water feature. Here you will find the MME Story Lore
A layout photo with different aspects of the ride highlighted
The backstory on this specific headframe, which came from the Doe Run Mine
This 15 story headframe is quite impressive and it features a working pulley that lifts that red bucket
The wheel on top also spins.
Time to head into the station
Here is where the new pathway to PowderKeg will be located. We will finally have a completed circle in the new Daredevil Pass section of the park
They have made a lot of progress on the station. You will enter via the queue in the right opening. The next opening to the left will be the exit from the ride. The boarded off opening is where the coaster trains will exit the station
Looking at where the trains will fly through the top of the station
This is the loading area. You will enter the trains on the left and exit on the right
This side will be split between the queue and then the exit area. The ride is supposed to have pass through cubbies like you can find at Fire in the Hole
This is the load side of the station
We're not sure what these stairs are for, but the go down to the basement.
Maybe Trailblazer will use them?
Couple of things to point out here. The big cluster of footers is going to be the maintenance shed. In the lower right hand corner of the photo you can see two supports staged, meaning we are close to going vertical
Looking towards Wildfire now, the footers closest to the station are the exit and meander pathway to the first lift
The track will thread in and out of Wildfire's supports
Right here it will pass under the final brake run and turn past the maintenance building, which will have its block break and transfer track right before the first lift
The first lift will then head up this way to the right
That lift hill continues up and over the hill into the helix garden
Speaking of the helix garden, this is what it looked like today
Then you go up the second lift hill and do a curve and come back towards Wildfire
Passing by the headframe it heads back towards the station
Following these footers it is headed towards the footers on top of the station
It then curves and heads towards PowderKeg's launch before turning and heading into the bat cave which is along the first hill of PowderKeg
After exiting the tunnel it does a floater hill before diving into this final curve
It then heads back up this way
And back into the station
One last thing to note before we head out - they have started to install the safety netting near the walkway to Wildfire. We think this means we are getting close to start seeing vertical construction in that area