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The Roller Coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park, Farmington, Utah

For the last ninety-six years the simply named "Roller Coaster" has been the longest running thrill at Lagoon.

In this day and age where it seems that little is built to last it is really cool that a coaster that is four years shy of existing a century is still kicking ass, delivering airtime and being so much fun as the Roller Coaster.

The Roller Coaster is one of the nine remaining John Miller designed and built coasters.

John Miller was the Thomas Edison of the amusement park world with hundreds of patents including patent number 1,319,888 which he filed in October of 1919.

That patent was for the "Pleasure Railway Structure" that had the first road wheels on the top of the track, guide wheels on the inside of the track and upstop wheels underneath the track locking the coaster train to the track. This simple patent made it so coasters can twist, turn, loop and fly in every imaginable way today.