Tanks4me05 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 It's something that's been annoying me for this whole morning. I remember seeing aerial postcards of a wood coaster that's long been gone. Here is what I remember: -It was a terrain coaster, mostly out and back -It existed some time in the first half of the 20th century, I'm almost positive it was around at least in the 1920's - 1940's. -It might have had a double down early on in the ride. -The most notable feature was that there were two drops about at the end of the ride that went down a ravine, and they were absolute monsters, and made it the tallest coaster in the world at the time (somewhere in the 120 - 140 foot range, IIRC around 130 feet.) These drops were gently turning without banking, kind of like the first drop on the Coney Island Cyclone but a bit more pronounced. It definitely wasn't Kennywood if anyone was thinking that it might have been. -The park that the ride was at is also long gone. I think I may have seen pictures of it in either Scott Rutherford's "The American Roller Coaster" or Robert Coker's "Roller Coasters: A Thrillseeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines" but I got rid of my copies of those a long time ago and I don't want to buy them again just to recall this coaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenbowl Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Blue Streak at Woodcliff Pleasure Park. (Was world's tallest/fastest when it opened) Cyclone at Puritas Springs was apparently one of the best terrain coasters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanks4me05 Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 ^It was definitely Blue Streak. That was solved more quickly than I was expecting. Not surprised you'd be the one to answer so quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condor Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 I remember a point in time when I confused the Woodcliff Blue Streak with the Conneaut Lake Blue Streak. I watched a pov one day and thought, "Man, this looks waaaaaaaaaay different than the picture from that book I once had." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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