Wooden Roller Coaster

The Wooden Roller Coaster is a roller coaster. In RCT1 it was called theWooden Twister Roller Coaster.

Construction
Track is laminated wood, topped with a flat steel running rail, constructed on a wooden support structure. Trains are held on the track by up-stop wheels, which run under the inside edge of the rails.

Special Track Elements

 * Banked Curves
 * Vertical Loop
 * On-Ride-Photo Section
 * Water Splash

Constraints

 * Maximum banked curve angle - 30°
 * Maximum Track Slope - 60°
 * Maximum Lift Hill Slope - 25°
 * Maximum Height - 105 Feet (RCT1); 200 Feet (RCT2)

Vehicles

 * Wooden Roller Coaster Trains
 * Wooden Roller Coaster Trains (backwards) (RCT1 only)
 * Articulated Roller Coaster Train
 * Six-seater Roller Coaster Train (RCT2 and RCT3)
 * Six-seater Roller Coaster Train (backwards) (RCT2 and RCT3)

Downloadable Vehicles

 * Dream Woodie Trains (See here)

Operating Modes

 * Continuous circuit mode

Other Information
A good Wooden Roller Coaster is fast, has plenty of air time, some lateral Gs, steep drops, and is designed to feel "out-of-control".

In Real Life
The Wooden Roller Coaster doesn't replicate a specific model, rather a general type of coaster. This type of roller coaster outdated the Side Friction coaster, and the invention of Up-Stop Wheels revolutionised this type of ride.

The Vertical Loop element is found in all three Tycoon games, however only one modern wooden roller coaster ever featured a vertical loop, Son of Beast at Kings Island. This loop was later removed to allow lighter trains to be used on the ride.

Dream Woodie Coaster
Dan Wolfe/The Amazing Earl created a downloadable Wooden Roller Coaster train called the Dream Woodie Coaster Trains. The cars were rendered to portray riders raising their arms over their heads on hills and leaning side-to-side on banked turns.