What gives you a dizzying, topsy-turvy, stomach-churning feeling? Roller coasters! Climb aboard a coaster named The Racer, Corkscrew, or Boomerang, and you know you’re in for a hair-raising ride! Many families go to amusement parks during their summer vacations just to ride their favorite “scream machines.”
Instead of the wild, looping rides we have today, the first “rolling coaster” in America was more like a runaway train. It actually was a train that once brought coal down a Pennsylvania mountain. When the train was no longer used for coal, the owners decided to turn it into a ride. It would carry people instead of coal. Tourists came from miles around to experience the exciting, shaky descent down the mountain. Soon more “railway” rides were built across the country. The age…
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