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The Scenic Railway at Luna Park, Melbourne, is the world's oldest operating roller coaster, built in 1912.. A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep slopes, and other elements usually designed to produce a thrilling experience.
A brake run on a roller coaster is any section of track that utilizes some form of brakes to slow or stop a roller coaster train.The most common type is the friction brake, often called a fin brake, which involves a series of hydraulic-powered clamps that close and squeeze metal fins that are attached to the underside of a coaster train.
Space Mountain is a space-themed indoor roller coaster attraction located at five of the six Disneyland-style Disney Parks.Although all five versions of the attraction are different in nature, all have a similar conical exterior façade that is a landmark for the respective park.
First roller coaster with five inversions: Viper, Darien Lake, Darien, New York. [16] First roller coaster to operate vehicles in reverse: Racer, Kings Island. First roller coaster to run stand-up trains: Dangai, Thrill Valley, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. Racer at Kings Island was the first roller coaster to operate vehicles in reverse.
The Great White is a sit-down wooden/steel roller coaster made and built by Custom Coasters International. [2] It has been operating since June 10, 1996 and has 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company with 6 cars per train. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train. [2]
Spacewarp is a line of build-it-yourself, marble-run toy "roller coasters" first made in the 1980s by Bandai. [1] Users cut lengths of track to the correct size from a single roll of thick plastic tubing, forming curves and loops held in place by plastic track rail holders which attach to metal rods held vertical in a black plastic base.
The original Switchback Railway was the first roller coaster at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City, and one of the earliest designed for amusement in the United States. The 1885 patent states the invention relates to the gravity double track switchback railway, which had predicated the inclined plane railway, patented in 1878 by Richard ...