Some call the roller coaster the only avantgarde roller coaster ever built.
Gravitational script:
- curve out of the station onto the lift
- the chain lift
- a spiraling first drop about 90 feet tall
- a second hill which ended about 82 feet above the ground
- an abrupt left turn down the second drop at 52 degrees
- a spiral drop
- the emergency brakes
- a steep drop into the high speed figure eight
- another drop and "hops" under the lift hill
- a 210 degree high speed turn under the coaster's superstructure
- a "zigzag" or "jazz twister" track (now called trick track)
- a series of track which rose and fell like small, one foot bunny hops, leading back to the station
http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/coasters/history/designer/traver.shtml
http://www.designboom.com/history/traver.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Traver
Theme Park by Scott A. Lukas, p. 109
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