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Gold Rush

It looks like this coaster has a design flaw that can get triggered under certain rare conditions and can cause trains to become stuck or crash. (I suspect that this is what happened to Soyboy.) I think the problem is the block brakes at the end of the second block (i.e. the far back). If those block brakes ever trigger to stop a train, then that train will never be able to get going again, because it has to go up a large hill at the start of the third block, and that hill is not a lift hill. Most of the time, this is not an issue because those brakes don't stop the train and the train has enough momentum to make it over this hill, but it can't do that if the train is starting from a standstill. I believe that replacing these block brakes with non-blocking (trim) brakes or even no brakes would fix the issue.

I don't know how but when I took a look at this ride after it was open for a while, the trains had gotten stuck on the rails somehow. Ride wasn't considered broken either. Any idea what happened? They were both found on the bottom left side of the loop.