A Steeplechase roller coaster is a type of roller coaster that has several side-by-side tracks in a dueling "racing" arrangement. Riders straddle horse-shaped...
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saxophonist Charlie Parker Steeplechase (dog agility), an event in dog agility Steeplechase (roller coaster) Steeplechase (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) racing...
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have since created similar designs. A similar but unrelated Steeplechase roller coaster was Knott's Berry Farm's Motorcycle Chase by Arrow Dynamics which...
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A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep...
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The Steeplechase is a three tracked racing roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Resort, England. It is a custom design made by Arrow Dynamics. The ride was...
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Railroad coaster by LaMarcus Thompson. Completing the park were scale models of world landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben. Steeplechase Pier,...
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Ron Toomer (category Roller coaster designers)
Rush, Jan (2007). "100 Moments in Roller Coaster History: The First Modern Steeplechase Coaster". RollerCoaster! Magazine. 28 (2): 19. ISSN 0896-7261. Baldwin...
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(Steeplechase Park)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved September 4, 2012. Marden, Duane. "Flying Turns (Century of Progress)". Roller Coaster DataBase...
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach (section Roller Coasters)
fully inverting steel coaster, Revolution and is the last remaining park in the world to still operate a Steeplechase roller coaster. The Grand National...
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Steeplechase (Steeplechase coaster, 1903-1904) Swing Around (1989-2005) Teddy Bear (Junior Wooden roller coaster from Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, 1935-1947)...
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ICON is a launched roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Resort in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Manufactured by Mack Rides of Germany, the ride opened on...
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Coney Island Cyclone (redirect from Cyclone Roller Coaster)
The Cyclone, also called the Coney Island Cyclone, is a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City...
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be replaced with a "hot rod" amusement ride. The steeplechase roller coaster, created by Steeplechase Park operator George C. Tilyou in 1897, consisted...
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Slingshot Steeplechase (2011 Roller Coaster) - A Zamperla launching motocoaster with trains resembling horses Soarin' Eagle - A Zamperla "flying" coaster where...
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Kennywood (section Roller coasters)
Park's first coaster Figure Eight Toboggan opens 1901: Old Mill and Casino restaurant open 1903: Steeplechase opens 1904: Steeplechase removed 1905:...
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S&S – Sansei Technologies (redirect from S&S Worldwide roller coasters)
company known for its pneumatically powered amusement rides and roller coaster designing. Stan Checketts with his wife Sandy (Stan & Sandy) founded S&S...
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List of Arrow Dynamics rides (redirect from List of Arrow Dynamics roller coasters)
(Geauga Lake)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved July 4, 2011. Marden, Duane. "Steeplechase (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved...
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Cloud 9 Dance Hall, Sky Cabin/Sky Jump and Motorcycle Chase steeplechase roller coaster above the electric guided rail Gasoline Alley car ride. The Sky...
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Zamperla (category Roller coaster designers)
Marden, Duane. "Steeplechase (Scream Zone)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Marden, Duane. "Soarin' Eagle (Scream Zone)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Marden...
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Amusement park (section Roller coasters)
beach. The first carousel was installed in the 1870s, the first roller coaster, the "Switchback Railway", in 1884. In England, Blackpool was a popular...
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Beach and Boardwalk, Rockaways' Playland was created in 1902 by roller coaster designer LaMarcus Adna Thompson. By 1903 a ferry dock was added not far...
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Drop the Dip (redirect from Trip to the Moon (roller coaster))
destroyed by the 1907 Steeplechase Park fire. Soon after it was destroyed, Feucht rebuilt the coaster in even more extreme form. The coaster was also moved several...
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Adventureland (New York) (redirect from Fireball (roller coaster))
camps on Long Island. There are more than 30 rides, including three roller coasters and two water rides. Adventureland is open seasonally: weekends in March...
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George C. Tilyou (section Steeplechase Park)
City's Steeplechase Park. Born in New York City, his parents had operated businesses in Coney Island from his early childhood. He founded Steeplechase in...
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John A. Miller (category Roller coaster designers)
was an American roller coaster designer and builder, inventor, and businessman. Miller patented over 100 key roller coaster components, and is widely...
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Flying Turns (redirect from Flying Turns (Roller coaster))
Flying Turns is a specific model of bobsled roller coaster. John Norman Bartlett, a British aviator in World War I, came to North America after the war...
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Parachute Jump (section Steeplechase Park)
Brooklyn, along the Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island. Situated in Steeplechase Plaza near the B&B Carousell, the structure consists of a 250-foot-tall...
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from nearby Steeplechase Park. In 1905, Frederick Ingersoll, who was already making a reputation for his pioneering work in roller coaster construction...
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with spires imitating New York's Chrysler Building. The Big Dipper roller coaster was an instantly popular attraction. After a successful opening season...
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typical White City park featured a shoot-the-chutes and lagoon, a roller coaster (usually a figure eight or a mountain railway), a midway, a Ferris wheel...
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