Side-Friction Roller Coaster

Construction
Track is laminated wood, topped with a flat steel running rail, constructed on a wooden support structure. Trains are guided along the track by side-friction wheels running inside wooden guide rails.

Special Track Elements
None noted

Constraints

 * Maximum Track Slope - 25°
 * Maximum Lift Hill Slope - 25°
 * Maximum Height - 78 Feet

Vehicles
Wooden Side-Friction Cars

Operating Modes

 * Continuous circuit mode

Build menu only

 * Side Friction 1
 * Side Friction 2

Scenarios

 * Shooting Starr (Sprightly Park)

Build menu only

 * Creaky Dips
 * Roman Racer

Other Information
Cheap and easy to build, but the track layout needs to be designed carefully, otherwise the cars can fly straight off the track on the hills. In RCT3 however, crashes are not possible.

This ride is called Wooden Side-Friction Roller Coaster in the original RollerCoaster Tycoon.

In Real Life
There is one operating instance of this ride left in North America in the state of Pennsylvania (Leap-the-Dips), it is currently the oldest operating roller coaster in the world.

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