The Lake 3-29-08

[WadeJ]

On Saturday, March 29th, Luke and I were fortunate enough to attend the off-season tour at Lake Compounce.

I'll add more later but I wanted to get the photos online before the season started

The new train (thanks to Wild Wild West)


Rapids


Flyer



AWESOME paint



A LOT of work goes into these trains every off-season



Ghost hunt remodel appears to be coming along nicely (kid can be included if they want him)



There is no wood older than 2 seasons



Bunny hops



Hopefully rides and awesome as it looks



Hopefully will get this picture again WITH the horse this year



I think parts of a water park will be where I am standing here



And once I find the link, I'll end it with the group picture Sue has lol

Thanks Lake Compounce, Lakecompounce.org and of course, Sue!


 

[Gordon Bombay]

Awesome report and photos! Thanks for sharing. Having done off season work on coasters at other parks before I really enjoyed your photos of the coaster trains in the shop!

[WadeJ]

Thanks for the compliment.

And I should add that DarkKnightDan was supposed to be there but instead left me to only having a 5 year old to hold conversations with in the car for 10 hours!!!

Missed ya Dan.  You missed a good time!

[coastersue]

I'll just add my pictures on here.  Enjoy!

Haunted Graveyard:


Walking along the path next to BD:


Music Express:


BD first drop:


BD new track:


BD new track:


Looking back toward the water park:


Yellow train!!!!


New paint job on Zoomerang trains:


New 4 person cars for Ghost Hunt:


Blue and green trains which will run on BD this season:


New train:


Water park expansion plans:


Plans for new water coaster:


Gift shop at entrance which has been redone and will be used as an exit to the park:


Lunch and Q&A in the training room:


Lunch and Q&A in the training room:


Group picture:

[Bubba Z]

car for 10 hours!!!

I thought you went to LC, not Kennywood.

Must of been one of those parkway nightmares like my trip in Oct.

[WadeJ]

LOL

Well, 3 1/2 hours to my parents on Friday night and then 1 hour on Saturday.  Then of course I had to drive home.  There was some misc. driving around in-between as well.

[darkridedan]

Thanks for the compliment.

And I should add that DarkKnightDan was supposed to be there but instead left me to only having a 5 year old to hold conversations with in the car for 10 hours!!!

Missed ya Dan.  You missed a good time!

You didn't really want any of this. 

 
^That's me coughing my head off
 

[coastersue]

Dan just doesn't want to see us.  He's fine to go to Wisp, BGE, and Coney Island, yet when we were supposed to go to Hersey he's sick and now he's sick when he was supposed to see us at LC. 

[darkridedan]

Ha. I know somebody like that but it's been a bad Winter and I'm glad it's over.

[Dubya91]

Heh, great Trip Report and Great Pictures