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Business Rocky Mountain Construction Group is a family run business. Grubb had been maintenance and construction director at Silverwood Theme Park before forming RMC. His wife Suanne had been the finance director at Silverwood. This led into the business of repairing traditional wood track as well as other theme park ride installations. Their daughter Amy is also part of RMC. Trained as a carpenter and
welder, the 59-year-old Grubb started in the '80s building Silverwood's two wood coasters with Custom Coasters. In 2006 he worked with Intamin building El Toro, the prefabricated track wood coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. RMC, founded in 2001, is
California’s Great America, Santa Clara, California, will
introduce a groundbreaking new single rail steel coaster, RailBlazer. It will be the first coaster of its kind on the West Coast featuring a single rail track throughout. The design requires the rider to straddle the rail, creating an extremely low center of gravity that amplifies every move and enables more dynamic turns and rotations than have ever been possible on a coaster. With an eight-passenger single file train hugging the rail, the coaster will give riders an unobstructed view of the ground and air as they speed smoothly over the twisting track.
This new monorail track, called Trex (as in tyrannosaurus rex), is a large steel box beam. Unlike RMC's Topper track and IBox track, the Trex track will use all steel supports. Benefits include the absence of the need to gauge the track, less structure, a new unique look, and no track ties. RailBlazer will lift riders to a height of 106 feet (32 m) before plunging them face down at a 90° angle. Throughout the 1,800 feet (549 m) of track, riders will travel 52 mph (84 kph), experience an abundance of airtime and steeply banked turns, undertake three inversions and twist through a zero gravity roll.
privately held by Dedmon and Grubb. They started in their garage with four people and one welding machine. They now employ just over 100, which Grubb cites as the key to their success. In 2008, coaster engineer Alan Schilke of Ride Centerline LLC and Fred collaborated and designed RMC's two new revolutionary track technologies: The Topper and I-Box Tracks. Raptor monorail track soon followed. These three new track systems have taken the roller coaster industry by storm, quickly making them a leader in the industry.
Twisted Timbers
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