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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

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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 ===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.
+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
 ===Other Information===
-Cheap and easy to build, but the track layout needs to be designed carefully, otherwise the cars can [[Crash|fly straight off the track]] on the hills.
+Cheap and easy to build, but the track layout needs to be designed carefully, otherwise the cars can [[Crash|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 ([http://rollercoaster.wikia.com/wiki/Leap-The-Dips_(Lakemont_Park) Leap-the-Dips]), it is currently the oldest operating roller coaster in the world.