originally posted on 9/22/2025
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Nobody enjoys a rough coaster. A few solutions have been promoted by manufacturers. For Great Coasters International, Inc. (GCII), the answer is Titan Track.
Many avid enthusiasts prefer the “pure” wood solution, but GCII introduced Titan Track in 2019 and has found numerous customers lining up.
Before most parks opened for 2025, GCII had teams installing Titan Track in rough spots on nine coasters. Now that the summer season has ended, those parks have had guests enjoying pleasing ride experiences with trouble spots now smoothed out.
Stampida at PortAventura (Salou, Spain) was the largest project in the past off-season. According to Clair Hain, owner of GCII, his teams replaced 325 feet on each side of the Custom Coasters Inc. racing woodie.
Stampida was the largest of the GCII Titan Track projects for 2025.
All nine of the projects were completed by mid-May. Owing to every park having essentially the same off-season, GCII had to start in December.
In the United States, projects were done at Darien Lake (Darien Center, New York), Dollywood (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee), Dutch Wonderland (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Lake Compounce (Bristol, Connecticut), Michigan’s Adventure (Muskegon), Six Flags St. Louis (Eureka, Missouri) and Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri).
Of note, the Titan Track for Dollywood was for Blazing Fury, not Thunderhead.
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Kingdom Coaster.
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While quite often the track replacement is done in high-speed areas, for Wodan at Europa-Park (Rust, Germany), it was the track out of the station leading to the lift (one of those fun wonky-banked sections). The first work on that woodie was done on the brake run, as Wodan hits the brakes with so much speed.
Titan Track isn’t the only refurbishment that GCII does. The company still repairs using both pine and ipe wood. It also replaces running rails, installs queue gates, lift repairs and — in this past year — enclosed Zambezi Zinger’s spiral lift hill.
Several years into installing the product, GCII is seeing customers returning for this particular solution. The weld-free, rivet-based system is solving a lot of issues.
— Tim Baldwin, ACE News
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