The Ride
The ride consists of a wooden-tracked railway with steel rails supported by a wooden structure. The ride occupies a space approximately 580 ft long (180 m) and 120 ft wide (37 m). The track is in a trough, and as such is often incorrectly referred to as a side-friction coaster. The train actually makes no contact with the trough walls; their presence simply to provide some lateral protection from derailment as the running wheels are flanged like those of railway vehicles. The layout of the track consists of a double-loop with two cable lift-hill sections. The drops off both of the lift hills are double-drops.
The trains of the ride were destroyed in the fire; but consisted of three cars mounted on bogies. The bodies and much of the chassis of the cars were wooden; and 28 riders could travel on each train. The brakeman rode between the first and second cars on the bogie and operated the brakes by a large lever.
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