Great Coasters International, Skyline design team up for wooden coaster projects
By amusementtoday | July 7, 2014
SUNBURY, Pa.—Clair Hain Jr., President and co-founder of Great Coasters International, Inc., has announced that Jeff Pike, Evan Souliere and Chris Gray will be departing to form their own company and pursue additional interests. At the same time, Hain also announced that the two companies have agreed to cooperate closely on wood coaster design and engineering for the foreseeable future.
“These guys have been great for GCI for a long time and are leaving to follow some separate dreams in addition to the wood coaster work we will be doing together ” said Hain. “Jeff, Evan and Chris have echoed our desire to keep working closely together supporting Adam House, Adam Yerdon and Anya Lehrner in our engineering offices in Cincinnati, as well as our assembly and construction efforts based in Sunbury.
“Jeff was trained by Michael Boodley and has for years he has been passing more and more of GCI’s knowledge and responsibilities to our hand-picked engineering team in Cincinnati,” added Hain. “Even so, these guys are friends, they are great at what they do, I wish them the very best and we are all very happy we will continue to work together.”
Great Coasters traditional wood coasters and Millennium Flyer trains are widely considered the finest in the world. Operating since 1995, GCI is owned and operated by Clair Hain Jr. based in Sunbury, PA. GCI has constructed twenty-three (23) wood coasters since then as well as assisted in the improvement and revitalization of dozens of wood coasters designed and constructed by others.
