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Montaña Suiza ("Swiss Mountain" in English) is a steel scenic railway roller coaster located at Monte Igueldo Amusement Park, on the coast at San Sebastián, Spain. It was designed and built by German engineer Erich Heidrich and opened at the site in 1928. [1] It is the oldest steel roller coaster still operating in the world.
Phantom's Revenge is a steel hypercoaster located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.It originally opened as Steel Phantom in 1991, featuring the fastest speed and longest drop of any roller coaster in the world.
A lift hill, or chain hill, is an upward-sloping section of track on a roller coaster on which the roller coaster train is mechanically lifted to an elevated point or peak in the track. Upon reaching the peak, the train is then propelled from the peak by gravity and is usually allowed to coast throughout the rest of the roller coaster ride's ...
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.
Steel Force is the eighth-tallest steel roller coaster in the world with a first drop of 205 feet (62 m) and has a top speed of 75 miles per hour (121 km/h). [4] The Smiler , a Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster at Alton Towers , which holds the record for the longest inversion Impulse with 540° helix at Knoebels Amusement Resort
Beastie was a steel family roller coaster made by Pinfari of Italy.The coaster was located in the Adventure Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England.The ride featured a tunnel and performed two laps of the circuit each run.
Corkscrew was a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers theme park, in the United Kingdom. Corkscrew was manufactured for Alton Towers by Dutch company Vekoma, [2] [3] engineered by Werner Stengel of German Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH (Ingenieur Büro Stengel). [4] The coaster was located in the Ug Land area, formerly called Talbot Centre. [2]
The Ultimate was a steel roller coaster located at Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire, England.Manufactured by British Rail Engineering Limited, the roller coaster opened in 1991 as the longest roller coaster in the world, surpassing The Beast at Kings Island in the United States.