Negative-G - Kennywood - Kennycon 2015

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The Steel Phantom Roller Coaster at Kennywood Park, West Mifflin, PA

The idea for Steel Phantom began after Kennywood's CEO rode Shockwave at Six Flags Great America. He liked the rides curving first drop and wanted something like that for his park.

The idea sat for a while and one day the thought came to him "what about diving the coaster through Thunderbolt and down the hillside".

The Black Widow at Kennywood Park, West Mifflin, PA

So he went out to the park and stood on the hill looking down and realized that it could be done.

So Steel Phantom came to be in 1991.

Back then Steel Phantom opened as the fastest and steepest coaster in the world.