Building The Thunderbolt - In the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, Iowa farmer Ray Consello listened when a voice said if you build it they will come. A few years ago Roy Schaeffer listened when his son said if we build it they will come. This wasn't about building a baseball field, it was about a family's dream to build the longest mountain coaster in all of North America!
For nearly 40 years, the Schaefer family has successfully operated the Berkshire ski area in Charlemont Massachusetts, and while the Schaeffer's continue to drive the local economy by building wind turbines, solar arrays and operating zip line canopy tours, it has been there dream to build the Thunderbolt, North America's longest mountain coaster that inspired a small army of loyal employees. By late september of 2014 the Thunderbolt was finally completed. On October 3rd, the engineers and state inspectors gathered to the track testing. Each coaster car was loaded with three hundred and fifty pounds of sand bagged. The employees themselves with the first to ride the Thunderbolt. On Friday, October 10, area manager Jonathan Schaefer woke to a beautiful autumn morning and said that it was the first time in over six months that he'd slept through the night now.
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