Roller Coaster and Amusement Ride Home Page
Links to the somewhat random stuff that comprises this site
Roller Coaster Patent Site
(also includes patents for non-coaster amusement rides)
North American Wild Mouse page
how to identify kiddie coasters
a short essay about the very early history of the roller coaster in the U.S.
an illustrated exploration of track and wheel arrangements used on wooden roller coasters
number of operating wooden roller coasters, 1960-2006
lengths and heights of wooden roller coasters
lengths and heights compared between wooden and steel roller coasters
selected links to other roller coaster sites
roller coaster topology page (not to be taken too seriously)
Rides of 1960 page
Roto-Jet page
Scrambler page
Flying Coaster page
Terraserver park index
Newspaper accounts of early roller coasters
The
Rocky Mountain News
and Denver's 1885 roller coaster
Early accounts of the invention of the roller coaster
Accounts of European gravity rides before 1884
Accounts of early centrifugal railways
about this site
This page last revised 13-March-2008