Cornball Express Construction Zone

The third hill being built in February.

I had the opportunity to see the construction of Cornball Express two times before it opened. The first was in January and the second in mid-April. All of these pictures (except the last one) were taken from the January trip. For some reason only the first picture came out from my second trip which is the reason there are not more on here. Scott and Carol Holmes asked me to write up a short paragraph on my initial reaction to the coaster after the first visit. I have reproduced it here because I still cannot believe Custom Coasters and Indiana Beach did such an amazing job of fitting this coaster in. My thanks to the Spackman family for allowing coaster enthusiasts to visit the construction site and for building yet another great coaster!

The crew builds the third drop next to the lake.

"When Indiana Beach and C.C.I. announced a new coaster, I was very happy. This was a great little park and now it would have a great coaster selection for a park its size. I hopped on over to C.C.I. and checked out the diagram. "What a fun ride," I thought to myself. Upon seeing the construction area, I (along with everyone else who has or will visit) asked, "Where is it going to fit?!" The Beach and C.C.I. have outdone themselves again in creating a coaster that is being inserted with the world's largest shoehorn. Seeing the worksite on January 23, I was constantly amazed that the thrilling coaster I had seen drawn on the internet was somehow fitting here. The
footers next to the flume drop are tight, but believable. Other things, such as the A-frame which will be under the station, a drop out on the water, trackwork through/around/under the Hoosier Hurricane really will need to be ridden to be believed. Seeing the coaster being built in person is definitely an experience, as one realizes that a coaster takes a long time to design, but this coaster, despite being under 100 feet, must have taken an amazing amount of work to be squeezed into a seemingly impossible footprint. Although not a ton of the structure was up during our visit, I could tell that this coaster looks like it is going to be very exciting and
different- a perfect addition to a park that appeared to have no room to grow."


The Hoosier Hurricane hibernates in the winter of 2001.	The double up on the Hurricane with the ferris wheel in the distance. Note the frozen lake.


Work on the third drop. Note the unique structure going up that the ride later dives through.	An opposite view from the picture on the left. Track is being put into place on the right side of the photo.


Workers lift a section of steel into place on the structure.	This is a view from the Hurricane's station. To the left is the skycoaster, then the Hurricane's lift and a crane from the Cornball construction.


The log flume is frozen during the winter. This is looking towards the area where the first drop now stands and is near the last bunny hop of the ride.	The structure for the fourth curve.	My only April picture that turned out. Notice the tight banking on this rising curve. To the left one can see a bit of the helix and the track leading into the final bunny hop.