On Saturday, Busch Gardens unveiled plans to construct the park’s first wooden roller coaster. The coaster will be Viking-themed and will reach speeds of 48 mph, according to the park’s website.

PTC no longer designs wooden coasters from scratch. They mainly rehabilitate wooden roller coaster cars, build coaster brake systems and manufacture gates that automatically open up when a roller ...

The PNE’s wooden roller coaster celebrated its 65th anniversary ... Phare’s partner in the build was Walker Leroy, who told the Vancouver Sun in 1998 that the coaster is made from “select ...

Watch an excerpt, above, from the new documentary “The Roller Coaster Wars That Birthed a Beast," available now on the Very Local app.It's hard to imagine a world without roller coasters and ...

A Cincinnati-area amusement park took a risk by building a roller coaster that would reignite America's love for scream machines Watch an excerpt, above, from the new documentary “The Roller ...