Switchback (ZDT's Amusement Park)

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Switchback

ZDT's Amusement Park Location Seguin, Texas, USA Status Operating since October 17, 2015
Statistics
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
Drop 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.

History

The ride was announced at IAAPA on November 18, 2014. It opened to the public on October 17, 2015.

Design

Elements
Chain lift hill Tunnel 104° over-banked curve Tunnel Vertical rollback Switch track

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

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  The safety sign.

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  The station.

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  The vertical rollback.

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  The lift hill.

External links

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  Switchback on the Roller Coaster DataBase.