, sometimes referred to as a dual track coaster, consists of one whole track or two separate
that travels along parallel or mirrored tracks to simulate a race between the trains. The coaster trains travel along tracks just a few feet apart of one another. They often get close enough for riders to reach out and slap hands with riders on the opposite train, though this is extremely dangerous and can result in ejection from the park.
Some racing roller coasters are Möbius Loop racing coasters. These rides have a single track that traverses the circuit twice. A train leaving the station on one side will return on the other. Currently there are three Möbius coasters in the world: the
are two examples of this. Other parks operate one side frontwards and one side backwards. In 2008, Cedar Fair directed the former
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American EagleThe American Eagle is a two track racing wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States. It was manufactured by Intamin AG of Switzerland and built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright...
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Six Flags Great AmericaThis article is about the former Marriott's Great America in Illinois. For the one in California, see California's Great America.Six Flags Great America is a Six Flags theme park in the Chicago metropolitan area, located in Gurnee, Illinois. It first opened in 1976 as Marriott's Great America...
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USAGurnee, IllinoisGurnee is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 28,834 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 30,772 in 2005. The village borders the city of Waukegan and is considered a part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The village is home to many Chicago Bears players,...
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Intamin AG Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide. The U.S. division of the company is located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and is headed by Gary Palmer, MD and Arnold Bernsteiner. The Intamin...
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1981 |
Tallest, fastest, and longest racing wooden roller coaster in the world |
ColossusColossus is a wooden roller coaster located in the Colossus County Fair area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. When it opened on June 29 1978, it was one of the tallest and fastest wooden roller coasters in the world, and the first roller coaster in the world with two drops in...
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Six Flags Magic MountainSix Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located in Valencia, California north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company...
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USAValencia, California Valencia is an affluent planned community located in Los Angeles County, California in the northwestern corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, adjacent to Interstate 5. In 1987, it was one of the four unincorporated communities that merged to create the city of Santa Clarita, California...
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Wooden |
2 |
International Amusement Devices |
1978 |
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GeminiGemini is a hybrid wood and steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Built in 1978 by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it is a racing roller coaster...
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Cedar PointCedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, United States on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It currently holds the world record for most roller coasters , one of which, Top Thrill Dragster, is the world's second tallest and second fastest roller coaster,...
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USASandusky, OhioSandusky pronounced [suhn-duhs-kee, san-] is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County. The municipality is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east.The population was...
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Arrow DynamicsArrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States. In 2002, the company went bankrupt but was quickly bought by fellow amusement ride manufacturer S&S Power to form S&S Arrow. During its peak, Arrow Dynamics was responsible for some of the biggest and most...
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1978 |
With wood supports. |
Grand NationalThe Grand National is a wooden racing coaster at Pleasure Beach, Blackpool. It was designed and constructed by Charles Paige in 1935 and is now one of only three surviving Möbius Loop roller coasters in the world and the only one in Eurasia. It is themed and named after the Grand National; with...
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach |
UKBlackpool, Lancashire |
Wooden |
1 |
Charles Paige |
1935 |
Mobius loop |
| Lightning Racer Lighting Racer is a wooden roller coaster located at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Built by Great Coasters International in 2000, it is the first wooden racing and duelling roller coaster. The ride makes use of Millennium Flyer articulated trains for a smooth and comfortable ride...
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HersheyparkHersheypark is an amusement park located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, near the Hershey Chocolate Factory.Hersheypark was opened in 1907 as a leisure park for the employees of the Hershey Chocolate Company, an American confectionery company. Later, the company decided to open the park to the public...
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USAHershey, Pennsylvania'Hershey is a census-designated place in Derry Township, Dauphin County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The community is located 14 miles east of Harrisburg and is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hershey has no legal status as an incorporated...
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2 |
Great Coasters International Great Coasters International, Inc. is a Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based roller coaster manufacturer which has created several award-winning rides. Starting in 2006 with Thunderbird, the company began building coasters in Europe. Güenter-Engelhardt GmbH handles the company's marketing rights in Europe...
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2000 |
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Matterhorn BobsledsThe Matterhorn Bobsleds or the Matterhorn is an attraction made up of two intertwining steel roller coasters at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It is modeled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps of over 14,000 feet, which has been scaled back to 1/100-scale to fit in with the rest...
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Disneyland |
USAAnaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of January 1, 2009, the city population was about 348,467, making it the 10th most-populated city in California and ranked 54th in the United States. The city anticipates that the population will surpass 400,000 by 2014 due to rapid development...
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Steel |
2 |
Arrow Dynamics |
1959 |
Weaves around and through a replica of the MatterhornThe Matterhorn , Cervino or Cervin , is a mountain in the Pennine Alps. With its high summit, lying on the border between Switzerland and Italy, it is one of the highest peaks in the Alps and its north face is one of the Great north faces of the Alps...
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Mitsui Greenland |
JapanArao, Kumamoto is a city located in Kumamoto, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 56,822 and the density of 994.26 persons per km². The total area is 57.15 km².The city was founded on April 1, 1942....
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Steel, Stand Up |
2 |
Senyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. |
1991 |
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Le MonstreLe Monstre is a wooden roller coaster at La Ronde amusement park in Montreal, Canada. Le Monstre is the largest wooden roller coaster in Canada and is also the tallest two-track wooden roller coaster in the world....
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La Ronde La Ronde may refer to:*La Ronde , an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada*La Ronde, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département, in France...
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CanadaMontréal, Québec |
Wooden |
2 |
William Cobb & Associates |
1985/86 |
One track opened in 1985, the other in 1986 |
| Montaña Rusa Montaña Rusa is a roller coaster at La Feria Chapultepec Magico in Mexico City, Mexico. In 1993 it was renamed Serpiente de Fuego but later it was changed back to Montaña Rusa....
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La Feria Chapultepec MagicoLa Feria Chapultepec Mágico is an amusement park in Mexico City in Mexico. Located in Chapultepec Park, it was opened in 1964 and operated by the Mexican government...
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MexicoMexico CityMexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city, with about 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008...
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Wooden |
1 |
National Amusement Device Company |
1964 |
Mobius Loop |
| Racer |
Kings Island Kings Island is a 364 acre theme park located in the city of Mason, in Warren County, Ohio. The park is located northeast of Cincinnati. The park owns close to , but only are currently developed. Kings Island is owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., and was part of the former Paramount Parks...
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USACincinnati, OhioCincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. The municipality is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. The population within city limits was estimated to be 333,336 in 2008, making it the state's third largest city...
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2 |
Philadelphia Toboggan CompanyThe Philadelphia Toboggan Company is the oldest existing roller coaster manufacturing company in the world. Based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, it was established in 1904 by Henry Auchey and Chester Albright, making various amusement devices, including carousels, wooden roller coasters, and their...
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1972 |
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RacerThe Racer is a wooden roller coaster located at Kennywood Park, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. It is a racing, moebius loop coaster; one of only three in the world.-Beginnings:...
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KennywoodKennywood is an amusement park located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The park first opened in 1898 as a trolley park for the Monongahela Street Railway Company...
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USAWest Mifflin, PennsylvaniaWest Mifflin is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, located southeast of downtown Pittsburgh. The population was 22,464 at the 2000 census....
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Wooden |
1 |
John A. Miller |
1927 |
Mobius Loop |
| Ramses |
Parque de Atracciones de Zaragoza |
SpainZaragoza, Zaragoza |
Steel |
2 |
Safeco |
2002 |
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| Rebel Yell Rebel Yell is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. It opened with the park in 1975.Rebel Yell is a racing roller coaster featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other. Its design was inspired by the Racer, another wooden racing coaster at Kings...
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Kings Dominion |
USADoswell, Virginia Doswell is an unincorporated community in Hanover County in the Central Region of the U.S. state of Virginia. Originally called Hanover Junction, it was located on the Virginia Central Railroad, which later became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at a crossing of the Richmond,...
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Wooden |
2 |
Philadelphia Toboggan Company |
1975 |
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Rolling ThunderRolling Thunder is a racing wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. Rolling Thunder is the park's first wooden coaster, and debuted in the park's fifth anniversary. The ride has an adjoining entrance and a separate queue for each track. Coaster 1 can be reached by the...
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Six Flags Great Adventure Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, located from New York City, from Newark and from Philadelphia. It is located next to Six Flags Wild Safari animal park and Hurricane Harbor water park. It serves as the amusement park for one of the biggest and most...
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USAJackson, New Jersey |
Wooden |
2 |
Don Rosser, William Cobb |
1979 |
Ride has two tracks in a figure 8 pattern, but the hills are arranged differently on each track |
| Stampida Stampida is a dueling, wooden roller coaster built by Custom Coasters International at PortAventura. It is a very rickety roller coaster with many drops and 2 tunnels. It features two parallel tracks with blue and red cars each one, but then they run separately for a while...
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Port Aventura |
SpainSalou, Tarragona |
Wooden |
2 |
Custom Coasters InternationalCustom Coasters International was one of the premier wooden roller coaster manufacturers in the world and produced more wooden coasters in recent times than any other company...
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1997 |
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Thunder RoadThunder Road is a wooden roller coaster located at the Carowinds theme park in Charlotte, North Carolina. It opened to much media attention in 1976.Thunder Road is a racing roller coaster, featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other...
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Carowinds |
USACharlotte, North CarolinaCharlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. Charlotte's population was estimated to be 687,456 in 2008, making it the 18th largest city in the United States. Residents of Charlotte are referred to as "Charlotteans"...
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Wooden |
2 |
Curtis D. Summers |
1976 |
Crosses the North CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties...
/South CarolinaSouth Carolina is a U.S. state that borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence from the British Crown during the American Revolution. The colony was...
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Twisted TwinsTwisted Twins is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It is a double-tracked dueling roller coaster by Custom Coasters International whose two trains are nicknamed Lola and Stella....
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Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is the ninth amusement park to use the Six Flags name. The park also includes a free water park called Splashwater Kingdom. The park is built on of land, 38 of which are leased from the Kentucky State Fair Board.-Park history:Kentucky...
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USALouisville, KentuckyLouisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's estimated population as of 2008 was 713,877 , with a population of 1,244,696 in the Louisville...
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Wooden |
2 |
Custom Coasters International |
1998 |
Standing but not operating. |
| Vertigorama |
Parque de la Ciudad The Parque de la Ciudad is an amusement park in Buenos Aires, Argentina.-History:The park was started in 1978 by the military city government of Osvaldo Cacciatore under the national military government...
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ArgentinaBuenos Aires City |
Steel |
2 |
Intamin AG Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide. The U.S. division of the company is located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and is headed by Gary Palmer, MD and Arnold Bernsteiner. The Intamin...
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1982 |
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| Vleermuis |
PlopsalandPlopsaland De Panne is a theme park located near the town of De Panne on the Belgian coast. The park opened on 20 April 2000. Before that date the park was called Meli-Park, created by a honey company and based on a bee theme.-History:...
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BelgiumDe Panne De Panne is a municipality located along the North Sea coast of the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Adinkerke and De Panne proper. On 1 January 2006 De Panne had a total population of 10,060. The total area is 23.90 km² which gives a population density of...
, West FlandersWest Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, also named Flanders, in Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands, the Flemish province of East Flanders and the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium, on France, and the North Sea. Its capital is Bruges...
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Steel, Suspended |
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Caripro |
2000 |
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