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A slight amusing aside here.  About fifteen years ago I was designing a roller coaster using No Limits that used a overbanked turn.  I put my design online for other budding virtual coaster designers to review and several people crawled up my rear stating that "you can't put a overbanked turn on a wooden coaster".  Hopefully those reviewers realize the folly of their self imposed limitations as wood coasters can do pretty much anything nowadays.



Coaster geek/engineering picture here.  If you want to keep a coaster smooth one of the things you need to do is to keep the rails a uniform distance from each other.  Especially on turns lateral forces can wreak havoc on the precise alignment of rails.  With that in mind these brackets were designed as a part of the Switchback because if you can keep maintenance costs down coasters like Switchback suddenly are less expensive to small parks like ZDT's.



Speeding in and out and around buildings really adds to the ride experience.



Remember when I mentioned a "blissful pause" on Switchback a page or two ago?



Here is that "blissful pause" half way through Switchback.
 


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