Negative-G - Kennywood West Mifflin, Pennsylvania - 2025

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The Steel Curtain roller coaster at Kennywood Park, West Mifflin, PA

As Steel Curtain loops this way and that overhead it really gets your blood pumping watching the ride.

Taking it for a ride though really cranks that intensity up quite a bit.

There have been multi-looping coasters since I was a kid in the 1970's but Steel Curtain certainly feels like something different.

The Steel Curtaiin roller coaster at Kennywood Park, West Mifflin, PA

You could say that the old looping coasters by Arrow Dynamics and Anton Schwarzkopf in the 70's and 80's was version 1.0. The work that the likes of Bolliger & Mabillard or Intamin have done with looping coasters is version 2.0. Steel Curtain on the other hand with its unpredictable layout and one custom inversion after another certainly feels like looping coaster 3.0 and I can't wait for more. It'd be nice if the coaster wars could heat back up with parks vying to have the coaster with the most inversions. Can you imagine a world with a new Steel Curtain like coaster going bigger and turning riders upside down a little more than the last record holder.

The Racer Roller Coaster at Kennywood Park, West Mifflin, PA

Moving on our next stop was the classic John Miller designed Racer.