Another week has passed, and track work continues on the Twisted Colossus construction at Six Flags Magic Mountain. These photos were taken on 11 Oct 2014.

From the far side of the parking lot, it doesn’t look like much has changed in the past week:

Looking closer, you can now see both the green and blue track have been added to the lift hill, and both are very close to what’s left of the top:

Even from the side, the new colors really stand out against all the other coasters:

There are rails extending out from the track with some flanges on the sides. I don’t think they support the track. I’m wondering if that’ll be for the lift hill’s railing and catwalk system:

Here’s a close-up of the end of the rail, waiting for the next track piece to be added. You can clearly see that the end of the track piece is resting on a vertical support beam. I think this is what is actually supporting the track, not the pieces we see sticking out the side:

I find it interesting that none of the existing structure has been cleaned up or painted prior to the new track being added. After 36 years of dirt and grime, not to mention a recent fire atop the lift hill, it needs some fresh paint. Maybe they’ll do that after the track work is done:

It does not appear that any work has been done on other parts of the structure yet:

There are some stacks of new white lumber laid out, ready to be installed somewhere:

In the background are what look like stacks of pre-made structure pieces. Perhaps these were made to to replace what was burned away at the top of the lift hill in the fire:

Some things were just meant to go together, like bread and butter, or peanut butter and jelly. I’m hoping that RMC and SFMM will remain a natural pairing as well:

There’s still a substantial pile of rubble within the main structure:

No visible changes from this side:

From inside the park, you get a much better view of the new tracks going up the lift hill:

It looks like they’re racing, and the green track is winning:

I like this next view of the track through the station. The blue track is heading up the lift hill to the right, and the green track is returning to the station on the left. It looks like they’re both at about a 45 degree angle up, and at a 90 degree angle to each other:

Speaking of the station, the old track on the left side of the station has been removed:

The old track leading up to that side is still there:

What I find most interesting about the new track heading up the lift hill is that the green track doesn’t actually start at the bottom of the hill like the blue track does. It seems to me that it would be a lot more difficult to line up track pieces later on by doing this. Also take note that not all of the blue track has the new cross pieces underneath with the flanges sticking out the side. The bottom-most green piece appears to be missing these pieces as well:

There appears to be some yellow canvas straps temporarily holding these pieces in place from the bottom. I’m wondering if the reason we don’t see those new cross pieces underneath this section is because there is a clearance issue with the rest of the structure through here:

Here’s the green track we saw last week, returning to the station. I can’t tell if it’s any longer than it was last week. A friend mentioned that the drop into the station like this might be a signature of RMC, and/or it might have something to do with the magnetic brakes. Anyone know? There’s a lot of coaster action in this photo:

Here’s that returning track in relation to the lift hill from the side:

There doesn’t appear to be much going on behind the scenes. It looks like a new batch of lumber has been laid out to be painted white, like we saw them doing earlier:

I didn’t see any track pieces sitting around anywhere to be installed. There was none out front and none here. I’m not sure if they’re waiting for more to be delivered, or perhaps it’s just somewhere else on the property, out of sight.

Here’s a short video I took of the construction site today:

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