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| Manufacturer | Schwarzkopf | ||||||||||||
| Product | Speed Racer / Extended Jumbo Jet | ||||||||||||
| Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||||||
| Type | Steel | ||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 18 | ||||||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 1,174 | ||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Electric spiral lift | ||||||||||||
| Height | 17.3 metres | ||||||||||||
| Top speed | 66.2 km/h | ||||||||||||
| Length | 787.3 metres | ||||||||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 2:31 | ||||||||||||
| G-Force | 2.1 | ||||||||||||
Montaña Rusa is a steel roller coaster located at Parque del Café in Montenegro, Quindio, Colombia. It opened at its current location in 1999. The ride was previously located at Worlds of Fun in Missouri, USA where it operated from 26 May 1973 to 1997 under the name Zambezi Zinger.
Design
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Color scheme
Yellow track and blue supports. The ride opened with green track and supports at Worlds of Fun, being repainted to feature red track and blue supports when relocated to Parque del Café, where it later got repainted to its current colours.
Trains
3 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged inline in 6 rows, for a total of 18 riders per train.
When it first opened in 1977, the ride had four trains. It is not known how many are still in use.
Incident
On 19 December 2021, a train carrying 9-16 riders had a mechanical failure that caused the middle car of the train to derail, leaving 3 injured.[1]
References
- ↑ Colombia, Redacción (20 Dec 2021). "Parque del Café responde tras accidente en atracción que dejó dos personas heridas". El Espectador. Retrieved 21 Dec 2021.
External links
- Montaña Rusa on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
- Montaña Rusa on Coaster-Count.
- Montaña Rusa on parquedelcafe.co.
