Construction
It is commonly mistaken that the Philadelphia Toboggan Company was heavily involved in the construction of this roller coaster, since the trains on The Beast are similar to the ones used on The Racer. However, the trains were the only part of the ride that the Philadelphia Toboggan Company had any involvement in. Primary construction was handled internally by Kings Island's Maintenance & Construction department.
While Kings Island was owned by Taft Broadcasting, the design and engineering was largely subcontracted to Curtis D. Summers Engineering, which was a structural engineering and architecture firm located in Cincinnati. Summers' team worked with Taft staff designers Al Collins and Jeffrey Gramke to design the Beast with John Allen providing profiling and dynamics specifications; Taft was unique in having constructed most of their wood coasters at Kings Island, Kings Dominion, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland during the 1970s and into the 1980s. Following KECO's sale of their theme parks to Paramount in 1992, Summers continued to partner with Charlie Dinn's firm on several coasters at parks around North America. The two firms continued to work together on coasters up until Summer's death in 1992.
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