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Designer / calculations | LaMarcus Adna Thompson | ||||||||
Type | Wooden | ||||||||
Propulsion | Man powered | ||||||||
Inversions | 0 | ||||||||
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Switchback Railway was a wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point, Ohio USA. It was the first roller coaster at the park and the first amusement park ride in the USA.
Design
Rider's climbed up a staircase to the station, where rider's pushed down in a tab-bogon like car*, and went through several airtime hills, before they reached the second tower, and were then turned around. (Thus the name, 'switchback') The Switchback Railway did not have a powered lift hill which meant that the cars had to be pushed back to the station by hand.
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