Wooden roller coasters

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Chapters: Wooden roller coaster, El Toro, Son of Beast, Coney Island Cyclone, Derby Racer, Crystal Beach Cyclone, Zippin Pippin, The Beast, American Eagle, Lightning, Dragon Coaster, Rolling Thunder, Scenic Railway Roller Coaster, Timber Wolf, The Comet, Rampage, Thunderbolt, The Voyage, Gwazi, Phoenix, Colossus, Yankee Cannonball, Thunder Road, Wild Mouse, Lightning Racer, Grizzly, White Cyclone, Prowler, Big Dipper, Mega Zeph, Thunderhead, The Racer, Giant Dipper, Viper, Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster, Leap-The-Dips, Silver Comet, Shivering Timbers, The Raven, The Bush Beast, Flying Turns, Twister, T Express, Apocalypse, American Thunder, Tornado, Cornball Express, Thunderhawk, Blue Streak, Woodstock Express, Switchback Railway, The Wild One, Twister II, Wild Cat, Mighty Canadian Minebuster, Rebel Yell, Psyclone, Boulder Dash, The Great American Scream Machine, The Legend, Hades, Jack Rabbit, Villain, Balder, Vuoristorata, Ravine Flyer II, Wildcat, Grand National, Hurler, Arkansas Twister, Rattler, Renegade, Texas Cyclone, Mean Streak, Nickelodeon Streak, The Bobs, Kentucky Rumbler, Hoosier Hurricane, Pegasus, Wild Beast, Colossos, Cheetah, Skyliner, Cyclops, Wolverine Wildcat, Megafobia, Zach's Zoomer, Jetstream, Zeus, Cannon Ball, Bandit, Le Monstre, Raging Wolf Bobs, Zipper Dipper, Ozark Wildcat, Hercules, Dania Beach Hurricane, Twisted Twins, High Roller, Thunderbird, Screamin' Eagle, Excalibur, Sea Dragon, Stampida, Sierra Tonante, Kingdom Coaster, Rollo Coaster, Flyer Comet, Boardwalk Bullet, Outlaw, Hell Cat, The Boss, Hurricane: Category 5, Thunder Run, Georgia Cyclone, Little Dipper, Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain, Cannonball Run, Judge Roy Scream, Tonnerre de Zeus, Montezum, Tremors, George and the Dragon, Tree Topper, Timber Terror, The Predator, Robin Hood, Swamp Fox, Green Dragon, Montaña Rusa. Excerpt: A wooden roller coaster is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlaid upon a wooden track. Occasionally, the structure may be made out of a steel lattice or truss, but the ride remains classified as a wooden roller coaster due to the track design. Due to the limits of wood, wooden roller coasters in general do not have inversions (when the coaster goes upside down), steep drops, or extremely banked turns (overbanked turns). However, there are exceptions; Son of Beast at Kings Island has a 214-foot-high (65 m) drop and originally had a 90-foot-tall (27 m) loop until the end of the 2006 season, although the loop had metal supports. Other special cases are Hades at Mount Olympus Water and Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, featuring a double-track tunnel and a 90-degree banked turn, The Voyage at Holiday World (an example of a wooden roller coaster with a steel structure for supports) featuring three separate 90-degree banked turns, Ravine Flyer II at Waldameer Park which has a 90-degree banked turn, and T Express at Everland in South Korea with a 77-degree drop. Once a staple in virtually every amusement park in America, wooden roller coasters appear to be on a slow decline in popularity for a number of reasons. Steel roller coasters, while having larger up-front costs, cost much less in ongoing maintenance fees throughout the years of operation. Wooden roller coasters, on the other hand, require large amounts of devoted funds annually to keep the ride in operating condition through regular re-tracking, track lubrication, an...