Sorry for the “hoosier” thing in the subject line, but it’s such low-hanging fruit, you know? When Popular Mechanics decided to name the best roller coaster in each state, they…
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Posts Tagged: Gravity Group
Lip synch
Learned something new today: The top two layers of track on our wooden coasters are collectively referred to as The Lip. As a result, the term Lip Service takes on…
Read More »Podcast: Controls Freak
Today’s podcast episode is called The One With the Controls Freak. Meet Brian Pastor: And here’s his story: That highly coveted hoodie Tomorrow’s #Podcast guest. Can’t wait! A post shared…
Read More »Podcast: Smooth Talker
As we enter the last month of the off-season, track work on The Voyage is coming to an end (the photo, below, is from back in January). So who is…
Read More »Hard Hat Chronicles, episode XX
Question: When were fractions invented? Was it after Roman Numerals were already in place? … because both XIX.V and XIX I/II just look wrong. And so, we’ll move on and call…
Read More »Dan and Chad take a walk by The Voyage
We love our Voyage. It's been voted the #1 Wooden Coaster on the Planet since it was one year old. This year is Voyage's seventh season. (Gosh, and it seems…
Read More »Move over, test dummies…
…it’s time for the humans to take a ride! Join William Koch and Mike Graham as they take the first “human ride” on the new Timberliner train on The Voyage….
Read More »Ready fenders
Been bugging the engineers at The Gravity Group for more photos of our new Timberliner trains. Testing of the new trains for our Voyage roller coaster begins in just a…
Read More »Special delivery
It’s nice to have The Gravity Group offices just three hours away, in Cincinnati. So when Tony, our maintenance director, asked for sample bogies and a chassis to be delivered…
Read More »Thump, thump, clap! Thump, thump, clap!
We've talked about the coaster crazies before. They're those park enthusiasts who love all-things-coasters to the point that they join a club. …to the point that they go to meetings…
Read More »Video: Will takes a seat…
Considering that The Gravity Group is based in Cincinnati, and we're here in Santa Claus, one would think Will wouldn't have to go all the way to Las Vegas to…
Read More »The family that rides together…
Will is a happy guy. He’s in Las Vegas at the IAAPA Expo, where a sample Timberliner car just happens to be on display. Looks pretty comfortable, doesn’t he? Front…
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