Switchback (ZDT's Amusement Park)
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| Builder | Gravitykraft Corporation | ||||||
| Designer / calculations | The Gravity Group, LLC | ||||||
| Type | Wooden - Shuttle | ||||||
| Riders per train | 8 | ||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||
| Height | 64 feet | ||||||
| Drop | 56 feet | ||||||
| Top speed | 41 mph | ||||||
| Length | 1196 feet | ||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||
| Angle | 87° | ||||||
| Airtime points: 9 - HELP | |||||||
Switchback is a wooden roller coaster located at ZDT's Amusement Park in Seguin, Texas, USA. It is the first, and currently only, modern wooden shuttle roller coaster.[1]
History
The ride was announced at IAAPA on November 18, 2014.[1] It opened to the public on October 17, 2015.[2]
Design
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While Switchback has 1,196 feet of track, the train travels over 1,980 feet of track per cycle. The ride has a spike with a maximum angle of 87 degrees. There are nine airtime points and a maximum bank angle of 104 degrees.
Switchback makes two passes through a building, which was formerly a small grocery store.
Ride experience
After rolling out of the station, the train makes a right turn and climbs the chain lift hill, followed by a drop. Riders go past a tunnel, which was a former small grocery store and a 104 degree over-banked curve. The train goes through a second tunnel and an airtime hill. Following a left turn, riders ascend a vertical rollback. The train completes the circuit in reverse, before slowing down on the brakes after the drop. Riders move through a switch track, followed by a left turn that returns to the station.
Trains
2 trains with 4 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in a single row, for a total of 8 riders per train. The front car of Switchback was on show at Gravity Group's IAAPA 2014 booth. The trains have a locomotive theme.
Gallery
The safety sign.
The station.
The vertical rollback.
The lift hill.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Switchback at ZDT’s Amusement Park". Coaster101. https://www.coaster101.com/2014/11/18/switchback-zdts-amusement-park/.
- ↑ "ZDT's Amusement Park in Seguin opening world's steepest wooden coaster this weekend". MySA. https://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/ZDT-s-Amusement-Park-to-open-new-roller-coaster-6572996.php#item-85307-tbla-10.
External links
- Switchback on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
