Despite popular myth, amusement parks don't simply throw a tarp over their rides in the winter and leave them covered until they open the next season...in fact...far from it.  All rides receive preventative maintenance over the entire winter months that would easily put your automobile to shame.  This section should help you to understand the work involved with keeping the rides safe for the summer season.

First, within the first few weeks that a park has shut down for the season, all of the rides are disassembled to a reasonable extent.  This means that all of the coaster cars come off the tracks, bumper cars out, flume boats pulled, carousel horses removed, swings, gondolas, and anything else that will either be rebuilt or could get damaged by the winter weather is removed and put into storage.

Carefully, the rides are transported to the shop for rehab.

Now that the coaster cars are at the shop, the work begins.

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