Tanks4me05 Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 It's something that's been annoying me for this whole morning. I remember seeing aerial postcards of a wood coaster that's long been gone. Here is what I remember: -It was a terrain coaster, mostly out and back -It existed some time in the first half of the 20th century, I'm almost positive it was around at least in the 1920's - 1940's. -It might have had a double down early on in the ride. -The most notable feature was that there were two drops about at the end of the ride that went down a ravine, and they were absolute monsters, and made it the tallest coaster in the world at the time (somewhere in the 120 - 140 foot range, IIRC around 130 feet.) These drops were gently turning without banking, kind of like the first drop on the Coney Island Cyclone but a bit more pronounced. It definitely wasn't Kennywood if anyone was thinking that it might have been. -The park that the ride was at is also long gone. I think I may have seen pictures of it in either Scott Rutherford's "The American Roller Coaster" or Robert Coker's "Roller Coasters: A Thrillseeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines" but I got rid of my copies of those a long time ago and I don't want to buy them again just to recall this coaster.
chickenbowl Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 Blue Streak at Woodcliff Pleasure Park. (Was world's tallest/fastest when it opened) Cyclone at Puritas Springs was apparently one of the best terrain coasters
Tanks4me05 Posted July 18, 2017 Author Posted July 18, 2017 ^It was definitely Blue Streak. That was solved more quickly than I was expecting. Not surprised you'd be the one to answer so quickly.
Condor Posted July 18, 2017 Posted July 18, 2017 I remember a point in time when I confused the Woodcliff Blue Streak with the Conneaut Lake Blue Streak. I watched a pov one day and thought, "Man, this looks waaaaaaaaaay different than the picture from that book I once had."
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